Notes

* Depp met with Pistone several times whilst researching his title role.

* The movie closely follows the real events surrounding the investigative work of Joe Pistone, but makes several deviations. One of these implies that the character Lefty was killed by fellow Family members for allowing Pistone to infiltrate the Family; in reality, Ruggiero was rescued by the FBI on his way to being shot in a restaurant, and was later put into a witness protection program. Ruggiero died of cancer in 1995. And in real life, "Sonny Black" Napolitano, Lefty's boss, was the one murdered for having allowed Pistone's infiltration.