Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
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Reviewsa classic5 years, 9 months ago at Aug 4 22:18
2 votes This is an epic, episodic tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. The movie centers on David 'Noodles' Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his lifelong partners in crime, Max (James Woods), Cockeye (William Forsythe) and Patsy (James Hayden) and their friends, who all grew up in New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s-1930s. In the late 1960s, an eld... read more
Review2 years, 1 month ago at Apr 22 20:32
2 votes In this film by Sergio Leone carried triumphantly away from the desert of the Wild West in appalling quarters of the big city to give us beyond a simple tribute to the gangster film, a complex and deeply human elegy over the loss of innocence. The characters are ordinary people who are desperately trying to survive in misery reaping the maximum benefit from the life they are offered, are outlined ... read more
Review3 years, 1 month ago at Apr 10 7:51
2 votes So far, I think this has been the longest film I've seen in my life, I had no idea that this movie had 4 versions and just saw the original version of 322 minutes. You do not know when it would end after two hours, I did not got bored seeing as it was in GoodFellas, is significantly better than De Niro's character in this one and the story best fits my personal tastes.The picture of ... read more |
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This movie has a checkered history, having been chopped from its original 227-minute director's cut to 139 minutes for its U.S. release. This longer edition benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, as told in
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Release date : 23 May 1984
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