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

It is probably most notable 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 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 (an in 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.

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