Excellent Cadavers

Released: 1999

Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime

Duration: 86 min

Cast: Chazz Palminteri, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Galiena, Lina Sastri

Fact based story about the political battle that was waged against the Mafia in Sicily during the late 1980's and early 1990's. Chazz Palminteri plays Giovanni Falcone, a crusading prosecutor who tried to use money trails as a way to attack the mobsters. He is aided by a former mobster (F. Murray Abraham) who volunteers to turn state's evidence after his sons are killed by a renegade mob chief. With the mobster's help, the prosecutor was able to obtain over 300 convictions.—John Sacksteder