Once Upon A Time In America  /  DVD-Video
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)  /  Production Year: 1984  /  Special Edition  /  Region 1

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Select Product View: General Info 1 Empire Review 5 Customer Comments Suggestions Used Product Box Cover Screen Shots Email a Friend All-Time Sales Rank: 253 Overall Rating: 3.79 out of 5, including 6 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Synopsis "May be theidefinitive gangster picture. Rarely equaled." -David N. Meyer, The New York Times 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). Cast & Crew Actors:  • Robert De Niro  • James Woods  • Burt Young  • Treat Williams  • Elizabeth McGovern  • Tuesday Weld  • Joe Pesci Writers:  • Sergio Leone  • Leo Benvenuti  • Franco Ferrini  • Enrico Medioli  • Franco Arcalli  • Piero De Bernardi Producers:  • Arnon Milchan Directors:  • Sergio Leone Product Information Features: Disc One: Feature Length Audio Commentary By Film Critic Richard Schickel Theatrical Trailer Interactive Menus Scene Access Disc Two: Excerpt From the Documentary Once Upon A Time: Sergio Leone Profiling the Making of the Film Photographic Memories Leone Film Highlights Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) Audio: (more info) ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC] FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: English, Spanish, French Studio: Warner Bros. Production Year: 1984 Release Date: 6/10/2003 Length: 229 mins Rating: R Chapters: 59 Includes: Audio Commentary Packaging: Custom Case Number of Discs: 2 Disc: SS-DL Item Code: 20026 UPC Code: 085393190927 Browsei Category: Movies Genre: Music, Special Editions, Western, Drama Studios: Warner Bros. Customers who bought this Title also bought Right Stuff, The: Special Edition  DVD-Video Giant  DVD-Video About Schmidt  DVD-Video Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves - Special Edition  DVD-Video Reviews Overall Rating: 3.79 out of 5, including 6 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Empire Review Magnificent! - 5 out of 5  (6/5/2003) Stunning, simply stunning! I apologize because I just can't find any other words to describe my first ever viewing of the entire ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA as the Director Sergio Leone intended it. Now some of you who have seen this movie on videotape or on late night cable might wonder what I was smoking. Others may wonder what I'm talking about but it's a very simple story to tell and you only need read on for the full explanation. The film originally premiered at the   more >> Customer Review The Very Best - 3.5 out of 5  (4/6/2004) One of the finest crime dramas not to mention one of the best movies ever. From the first scenes to the last a real flavorful rendition of life on the Lower East Side of New York and how the gangs of the city really came to be. Especialy the "Jewish Mobs" of the era. The sepia tone of the film and the uneast friendship between Woods & DeNiro make the film seem almost documentary in feel. One of those films that just make you wish it had gone on a little longer although the character and plot dev   more >> Customer Review A Memorable Event - 4.75 out of 5  (12/31/2003) When I first started collecting DVD's nearly 5 years ago, I made myself up a short list of films I really loved - "had to have movies" - and like so many if icon Bob DeNiro's films, this one was on the list. It is a poignant, moving drama about a group of boys growing up in the New York of the Thirties and already into petty crime. The film plots the course of their lives as they go from poverty to wealth and underworld power, it is also a tale of lost love,lost opportunity and waste. A young Je   more >> Customer Review A graceful curtain call for Leone - 3.25 out of 5  (8/14/2003) Now, I'm going to level with you right off the bat: I HATED this movie. I hated it with a passion that cannot be described in appropriate words. When the sanitized American theatrical release opened (For the sake of argument, we're going to call this version the 'bad' version; shorn of almost 50 minutes from the original running time of 229 minutes, the version shown at Cannes and the one offered on this DVD), it bombed so bad that critics and audiences alike couldn't keep up with it. I ultimate   more >>