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1	!!! ''The Godfather'' (1972)
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3	The plot of the first movie begins in 1945 with Michael Corleone (Creator/AlPacino), the youngest son of the [[TheDon Don]] of the Family, Vito Corleone (Creator/MarlonBrando), returning from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and reuniting with his family at his sister Connie's wedding. The good times don't last long, however: shortly after the wedding a captain from a rival crime family tries to interest the Don and his HotBlooded eldest son, Sonny (Creator/JamesCaan), in the new up and coming moneymaker: heroin. The old fashioned Don is not interested, believing that selling drugs would wreck the political connections vital to the family, but when Sonny shows interest the rival family decides on a new course of action: kill Don Vito, and try to make a bargain with Sonny afterwards.
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5	The assassination attempt on the Don fails to kill him but puts him in the hospital and Michael, who has never been interested or involved in the Family business before, thwarts a second attempt while visiting his father at the hospital. At a truce meeting Michael kills both the captain from the other family and a police captain that was involved in the second attempt at his father before going into hiding, and Sonny, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge furious at the attempts at his father's life]], declares an all out MobWar.
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7	Eventually Sonny is ambushed and killed, and Michael is forced out of hiding to try to take over the family. [[ObfuscatingStupidity Michael pretends to be helpless at first]], but after his father dies and he becomes the head of the Family, Michael ruthlessly purges {{The Mole}}s within the family and his enemies in the other major mob families, leaving the Corleone family as the most powerful force in the mob scene.
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9	!!! ''The Godfather Part II'' (1974)
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11	The second film continues Michael's story around 1958 while giving flashback accounts of the young Don Vito (Creator/RobertDeNiro) from his troubled childhood to his eventual turn to crime and rise to power (based on parts of the original book which were omitted from the first film). In the present Michael is juggling many problems, which include he and Jewish gangster Hyman Roth trading double-crosses and assassination attempts even as they do business together, his personal life with his wife and family crumbling, and the Corleone family trying to survive an investigation from the US government.
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13	Eventually Michael manages to overcome everything (evading federal prosecution, killing all his enemies and other conspirators), but the film ends on a theme of PyrrhicVictory: Michael's actions have destroyed his family, ended his marriage, he's killed his sole remaining blood brother, Fredo (after finding out that Fredo made a deal with Hyman Roth), and ends the movie utterly alone.
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15	!!! ''The Godfather Part III'' (1990)
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