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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085393190927
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 10, 2003
Running Time: 229 minutes
Sales Rank: 1976
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 01, 1984
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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).Running Time: 229 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 085393190927 Manufacturer No: 31909
Amazon.com essential video:
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 flashback by an aging Jewish gangster named Noodles (Robert De Niro). On the other hand, it's almost four hours long, and this sometimes-indulgent Sergio Leone film is no Godfather. Still, it is notable for the contrast between Leone's elegiac take on the gangster film and his occasional explosive action, as well as for the mix of the stoic, inexpressive De Niro and the hyperactive James Woods as his lifelong friend and rival. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Once Upon a Time in America
Great movie. It's quite long and takes a little time to get into it, but it's worth the time.
Rating: - A Great Gangster Movie
Shadow Watcher
Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake
I've always felt that, with the exception of THE GODFATHER TRILOGY, Sergio Leone's epic is, by far, the best of the modern gangster films. Butchered by the distributors upon its initial release, the movie was later restored to its nearly 4-hour length and form. It is this extraordinary version that is available on DVD.
"I brought back the key to your clock," says aging hood Robert DeNiro to childhood friend, "Fat Moe" ... Read More
Rating: - Finest Film of the Past 25 Years
This is a great film -- in my view it is clearly the best film of the past 25 years. Leone's final cut, the one that played to international audiences, not the butchered format foisted on Americans, has been restored. Incidentally, I do recall going to an artsy neighborhood movie house in 1985 (they still existed back then) and seeing this precise cut. Too bad it was not the one that played on the first-run screens. It should have won best director, best film, and best score -- and DeNiro should ... Read More
Rating: - Mixing a Good Yarn With Cultural Overtones
Technical:Very good DVD reproduction; audio, visual clarity, scene changes, etc.
The Story: Outstanding story line, excellent character and role development, excellent timeline (chronological) progression with mostly understandable flash-backs (a few switches you have to pay attention to). Doesn't romanticize mobsterism / thuggery as The Godfather did. Provides good mental picture of cultural and ethnic diversity and clashes - was it really like this?
Movie Making: Great script, scenes, direction ... Read More
Rating: - Very Good
I had this stacked on our DVD collection and pulled it our on a whim. Excellent film. At first we were making fun of the staginess of the scenes then at some point the whole thing starts to make sense. A lot better than the reviews. It will stick with you.
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