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Film:  Midnight Run

I watched the whole thing.  When someone from the movie biz passes away, I like to think back on what 3 movies I'd watch to commemorate them.  With DeNiro, it'll be tricky because he has so many good movies AND so many bad movies.  Obviously I don't want to remember him from Righteous Kill, but I also don't think his career should be exclusively remembered as his work with Scorcese.  Here's what I think right now (and I realize the man is still alive):

Taxi Driver
Midnight Run
Heat

There's Mean Streets and Raging Bull, but I think Taxi Driver is the movie DeNiro owns and is the most quintessential.  Midnight Run is his best comedy - by far.  If someone even bothers to mention Meet the Parents, I'm going to punch them in the mouth.  But there ought to be an acknowledgement of his comedy leanings in any DeNiro restrospective.  And then Heat, which is a tough choice with Goodfellas, Casino, and even Ronin as a random good performance, but Heat is probably the most interesting and I believe, one of DeNiro's own favorite movies.

The odd movie out is Deer Hunter and I suppose you could do a respectable - Taxi Driver, Deer Hunter, Goodfellas type of choice.  But even in mentioning that, Goodfellas isn't exactly DeNiro's movie (and in a way, neither is Mean Streets or Raging Bull).