The Godfather (2012)

The Godfather is a 2012 American crime drama film based on the Francis Ford Coppola is Director of the same name. It is a remake of the 1972 film directed by Seth Grahame-Smith and starring Oscar Issac, Kevin Spacey, Edward James Olmos and Thandie Newton.

Plot
In 1945, at his daughter Connie's wedding to Carlo Rizzi, Vito Corleone hears requests in his role as the Godfather, the Donof a New York crime family. Vito's youngest son, Michael, who was a Marine during World War II, introduces his girlfriend, Kay Adams, to his family at the reception. Johnny Fontane, a famous singer and Vito's godson, seeks Vito's help in securing a movie role; Vito dispatches his consigliere, Tom Hagen, to Los Angeles to persuade the obnoxious studio head Jack Woltz, into giving Johnny the part. Woltz refuses until he wakes up in bed next to the severed head of his prized stallion.

Shortly before Christmas, drug baron Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, backed by the Tattaglia crime family, asks Vito for investment in his narcotics business and protection through his political connections. Wary of involvement in a dangerous new trade that risks alienating political insiders, Vito declines. Suspicious, Vito sends his enforcer, Luca Brasi, to spy on them. However, a Tattaglia button man garrotes Brasi during Brasi's first meeting with Bruno Tattaglia and Sollozzo. Later, as Vito is buying fruit while accompanied by his middle son Fredo, he is gunned down by two of Sollozzo's men, an act that the frail and nervous Fredo is unable to prevent. Sollozzo then kidnaps Hagen. Knowing that Vito's vengeful and impulsive first-born son Sonny is now in command, Sollozzo pressures Hagen to persuade Sonny to accept Sollozzo's deal, then releases him. The family receives fish wrapped in Brasi's bullet-proof vest, indicating that Luca "sleeps with the fishes." Sonny orders Corleone capo(lieutenant) Peter Clemenza to get rid of Paulie Gatto, Vito's usual bodyguard who had intentionally aided Sollozzo in the assassination attempt by calling in sick. Clemenza gives the assignment to Corleone soldier Rocco Lampone, who kills Paulie by shooting him in the back of the head.

Vito survives despite having been shot five times, and at the hospital Michael thwarts a second attempt on his father; Michael's jaw is broken by corrupt NYPD Captain Mark McCluskey, Sollozzo's bodyguard. Sonny retaliates with a hit on Bruno Tattaglia, the son of Tattaglia family patriarch Philip. Michael, who had previously been uninvolved in the family's criminal activities at his father's behest, volunteers to murder Sollozzo and McCluskey. On the pretext of settling the dispute, Michael agrees to meet them in a Bronx restaurant. There, retrieving a handgun planted by Clemenza, he kills both men.

In spite of a crackdown by the authorities, the Five Families erupt in open warfare and Vito's sons fear for their safety. Michael takes refuge in Sicily and Fredo is sheltered by Jewish mobster Moe Greene in Las Vegas. Sonny attacks his brother-in-law Carlo on the street for abusing his sister Connie and threatens to kill him if it happens again. When Carlo beats Connie again, Sonny speeds to their home, but is ambushed at a highway toll booth and riddled with submachine gun fire. While in Sicily, Michael meets and marries Apollonia Vitelli, but a car bomb intended for him takes her life.

Devastated by Sonny's death, Vito moves to end the feuds. Realizing that the Tattaglias are controlled by the now-dominant Don Emilio Barzini, Vito assures the Five Families that he will withdraw his opposition to their heroin business and forgo avenging his son's murder. His safety guaranteed, Michael returns home to enter the family business and marry Kay, who gives birth to two children by the early 1950s.

With his father at the end of his career and his brother Fredo too weak, Michael takes the family reins, promising his wife the business will be legitimate within five years. To that end, he insists Hagen relocate to Las Vegas and relinquish his role to Vito because Tom is not a "wartime consigliere"; Vito agrees Tom should "have no part in what will happen" in the coming battles with rival families. When Michael travels to Las Vegas to buy out Greene's stake in the family's casinos, Greene refuses and derides the Corleones for being run out of New York, and Michael is dismayed to see that Fredo has fallen under Greene's influence.

Vito warns Michael that after Vito's death, someone close to the family will propose to have Michael meet with the other dons of the Five Families, which is really a pretext to have Michael killed. Vito also expresses regret that he was ultimately unable to shield Michael from the family business. Soon afterwards, Vito suffers a fatal heart attack while playing with his grandson, Michael's son Anthony. At the funeral, Tessio, a Corleone capo, asks Michael to meet with Don Barzini, signaling the betrayal from within the family that Vito had forewarned. The meeting is set for the same day as the christening of Carlo and Connie’s new baby. While Michael stands at the altar as the child's godfather, Corleone assassins murder the other New York dons and Moe Greene. Tessio is executed for his treachery and Michael extracts Carlo’s confession to his complicity in setting up Sonny's murder by Barzini. Michael assures Carlo that he would not make his sister Connie a widow, and tells him he is being sent to Las Vegas. However, when Carlo gets in the car to go to the airport, Clemenza garrotes him with a wire. Connie accuses Michael of Carlo's murder, telling Kay that Michael ordered all the killings. Kay is relieved when Michael finally denies it, but when the capos arrive, they address her husband as Don Corleone, and she watches as they close the door on her.

Cast
Kevin Spacey - Vito Corleone

Oscar Isaac - Michael Corleone

James Franco - Santino "Sonny" Corleone.

Diane Lane - Kay Adams-Corleone

Ryan Ochoa - Frederico "Fredo" Corleone

Baliee Madison - Constanzia "Connie" Corleone

George Lopez - Carlo Rizzi

Richard Gere - Peter Clemenza

Chris Pome - Salvatore Tessio

Brad Garrett - Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo

Sterling Knight - Captain Mark McCluskey

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