Colin Sullivan: I'm going to need the identity of your undercovers.
Dignam: Blow me, alright? But not literally, though. Unfortunately, there's no promotion involved for you.
In the restaurant, after Costigan says "The Academy is over" he starts to bring the cigarette to his mouth but before he smokes, while the action, music and dialogue continues, the shot cuts to him already exhaling the smoke. See more...
Directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Matt Damon (add more)
The title track to the movie, which plays at the menu and twice in the movie, is "I'm Shipping Up to Boston", a hit song by the Dropkick Murphys. The Dropkicks are a Boston-based Irish band, fitting for a movie about Irish mobsters in Boston. The song is also the entrance music for Red Sox closer Jonathon Papelbon.
This was Martin Scorsese's first film to win Best Picture. And his first Oscar for best Director. Martin also said that this was the first movie he ever made with a plot.
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