Playing for the Mob

About Playing for the Mob

The story of how mobster Henry Hill - played by Ray Liotta in Martin Scorsese 1990 classic, Goodfellas - helped orchestrate the fixing of Boston College basketball games in the 1978-79 season. The details of that point-shaving scandal are revealed for the first time on film through the testimony of the players, the federal investigators and the actual fixers.

Playing for the Mob (2014) is a documentary film directed by Cayman Grant and Joe Lavine. It runs 77 minutes and was released in October 2014.

Its themes are corruption, college, organized crime, and sports documentary.

Ray Liotta takes the lead as Narrator, Henry Hill as Himself, Jim Sweeney as Himself, and Rick Kuhn as Himself.

The Fab Five, Black Mass, and Hoop Dreams make useful companions to Playing for the Mob, all filed under basketball, college basketball, and college sports.