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Features: DVD, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
Ten years in planning, Sergio Leone's epic Once upon a Time in America portrays 50 years of riveting underworld history and offers rich roles to a remarkable cast. Robert De Niro and James Woods play lifelong Lower East Side pals whose wary partnership unravels in death and mystery. Strong support comes from Tuesday Weld, Joe Pesci, Jennifer Connelly, Elizabeth McGovern and the young actors playing the central characters as ghetto kids. To see this film (offered for the first time in the full version 1984 Cannes Film Festival audiences cheered) is "to be swept away by the assurance and vitality of a great director making his final statement in a medium he adored" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times).Format: DVD MOVIE
Editor's Note
Two boyhood friends grow up to become the kingpins of a prohibition-era criminal empire until their own greed and ambition cause their downfall. Based on Larry Grey's novel, "The Hoods."
Plot Summary
Sergio Leone's epic film chronicles the lives and loves of a quintet of Jewish mobsters from New York. Beginning with their boyhood in the 1920's, the film covers the story from the point of view of the aging troupe's clever ringleader, Noodles. He recounts the tale of a life filled with brutality and violence. And clearly he's still got some plans up his sleeve...
| Features | 2-Disc Set | | Region 1 | | Note: Contains 229-Minute Version. | | Digipak | | Single Side - Dual Layer | | Special Edition | | Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital 5.1 - English | | Dolby Digital 5.1 - French | | Additional Release Material:
| Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer | | Featurette: REVEALING ONCE UPON A TIME | | Audio Commentary: Richard Schickel - Film Critic/Historian | | Text/Photo Galleries:
| Filmographies | | Photo Galleries |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 4/5/2005 |
| Running Time: 229 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1984 | | Catalog ID: 31909 | | UPC: 00085393190927 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...[The] lensing is excellent..." 05/23/1984Los Angeles Times
"...Richly cinematic....[An] exceptional film, both artificial and naturalistic, excessive as well as tightly controlled..." 07/10/1999 p.C1 Film Comment
"...This time-slipping Freudian gangster epic is an awe-inspiring achievement..." 05/01/2003 p.78 Total Film
"...ONCE UPON A TIME is a work of technical beauty and sombre emotion..." 08/01/2003 p.121 Sight and Sound
"...Epic in every sense....A triumph of the pure art of cinematic storytelling..." 09/01/2003 p.70 |
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