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My Blue Heaven (1990 American film)

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My Blue Heaven
File:My Blue Heaven.jpg
Directed byHerbert Ross
Written byNora Ephron
Produced byHerbert Ross
Anthea Sylbert
Goldie Hawn (executive)
Nora Ephron (executive)
Andrew Stone (executive)
StarringSteve Martin
Rick Moranis
Joan Cusack
Carol Kane
William Irwin
Melanie Mayron
Daniel Stern
William Hickey
Julie Bovasso
Deborah Rush
Seth Jaffe
Colleen Camp
Jesse Bradford
Corey Carrier
Robert Miranda
CinematographyJohn Bailey
Edited byRobert Reitano
Stephen A. Rotter
Music byIra Newborn
Walter Donaldson (theme song)
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release dates
August 17, 1990
Running time
97 min.
LanguageEnglish

My Blue Heaven is a 1990 film starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Joan Cusack.

It has been noted for its relationship to the movie Goodfellas. Both movies are based upon the life of Henry Hill, although the character is renamed to "Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli" in My Blue Heaven.

In some ways My Blue Heaven is a preemptive sequel to Goodfellas, as Goodfellas ends with Hill's dissatisfaction with life in the Witness Protection Program, while My Blue Heaven starts out Hill's life after the move. Goodfellas stays much closer to the facts of Hill's life, but a lot of Hill's experiences are reflected in the latter film (in an addition, My Blue Heaven flashes title cards on the screen listing the chapter headings in Hill's books).

While Goodfellas was based upon the book Wiseguys by Nicholas Pileggi, the screenplay for My Blue Heaven was written by Pileggi's wife, Nora Ephron, and much of the research for both works was done in the same sessions with Hill.

The movie was filmed primarily in the California city of San Luis Obispo and the surrounding area, though the nominal setting is a fictional suburb of San Diego, California. Some scenes were actually shot in San Diego.

Trivia

  • Originally, Steve Martin was cast to play Barney Coopersmith, with Arnold Schwarzenegger playing the role of Vinnie Antonelli. However, Schwarzenegger was soon thereafter offered the role of Det. John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop, and left the production. Failing to find another suitable "Vinnie" for Martin's Coopersmith, Martin offered to take on the role of Vinnie himself. Producers agreed, and then cast Rick Moranis in the Coopersmith role.

Cast

Songs

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