Production:

• USA, 1997, Color, 121 min., Dolby Digital and SDDS
  
• Produced by: Mark Johnson/Baltimore Pictures, released by Sony Tristar
  
• Directed by: Mike Newell
  
• Written by: Paul Attanasio, based on the book by Joseph D. Pistone with Richard Woodley, Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia. New York: New American Library, 1988, 1989.
  

Cast:

• Al Pacino as Lefty Ruggiero
• Johnny Depp as FBI agent Joe Pistone, alias Donnie Brasco
• Anne Heche as wife Maggie Pistone
• Michael Madsen as Sonny Black
• Robert Miano as Sonny Red
• Bruno Kirby as Nicky
• James Russo as Paulie
• Zeljko Ivanek as Tim Curley
• Gerry Becker as Dean Blandford
• Zach Grenier as Dr. Berger
• Brian Tarantina as Bruno

Others:

• Cinematography by Peter Sova
• Music by Patrick Doyle
• Production Design by Donald Graham Burt
• Art Direction by Jefferson Sage
• Set Decoration by Leslie Pope
• Costume Design by Aude Bronson-Howard, David C. Robinson
• Film Editing by Jon Gregor

Resources:

• Sony Pictures web site
• Span, Paula. "The FBI's Veiled Threat; Joseph Pistone Spent Six Years Inside the Mafia and Lived to Tell the Tale," Washington Post, February 28 1997; p. C01.
• Review by Roger Ebert for Chicago Sun-Times
• Some other films of the gangster genre

Cast and production information from The Internet Movie Database