Five Things I Know About ... "Donnie Brasco"

The Johnny Depp-Al Pacino vehicle is a first-rate mob drama, well-acted and more emotionally complex than you remembered

Party of five — table in the back, facing the front door, please.

1. Like the best, most accomplished mob movies (directed by the likes of Coppola and Scorsese), Brit filmmaker Mike Newell’s 1997 drama, inspired by a true story, is more focused on the brotherhood/family aspects of Mafia life than on the actual criming. These guys view their mob associates …