Once Upon a Time in America
Director: Sergio Leone
IMDB Rating: 8.20 out of 10 (23571 votes)
Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson (Robert De Nero) and his lifelong partners in crime; Max (James Woods), Cockeye (William Forsythe) and Patsy (James Hayden) and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past.
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Taglines: 1: As boys, they made a pact to share their fortunes, their loves, their lives. As men, they shared a dream to rise from poverty to power. Forging an empire built on greed, violence and betrayal, their dream would end as a mystery that refuse to die.
2: As boys, they said they would die for each other. As men, they did.
Actors: De Niro Robert (David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson), Woods James (Maximilian ‘Max’ Bercovicz), McGovern Elizabeth (Deborah Gelly), Williams Treat (James Conway O’Donnell), Weld Tuesday (Carol), Hayden James (Patrick ‘Patsy’ Goldberg), Pesci Joe (Frankie Minaldi), Rapp Larry (’Fat’ Moe Gelly), Aiello Danny (Police Chief Vincent Aiello), Forsythe William (Philip ‘Cockeye’ Stein), Young Burt (Joe Minaldi), Fluegel Darlanne (Eve), Miller Dutch (Van Linden), Harper Robert (Sharkey), Bright Richard (Chicken Joe),
