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Once Upon A Time In America Directed by Sergio Leone Screenplay by Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Sergio Leone Based on The Hoods, by Harry Grey Starring Robert DeNiro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, and Treat Williams Released in Cannes, with a runtime of 3:49, May 23, 1984; US release, with a runtime of 2:19, June 1, 1984. (Originally had 8-10 hours shot, cut that down to 6, then again. To 4:30, finally to the 3:49 runtime). Budget: $30M ($94.2M in 2020) Box Office: $5.3M ($16.6M) Gross: Flop. But later won acclaim when the full version was released. Ratings: IMDb 8.4/10 Rotten Tomates 87% Google Users 91% Plot: Intro: Opens on what is obviously gangsters looking for someone. They kill a woman and savagely beat a man. We then see Robert DeNero in an opium den. He’s obviously upset by something. He smokes and passes out, having a flashback of seeing people killed on the street and possibly him calling the cops. He comes to as the gangsters enter the theatre attached to the smoking den, he escapes to a jewish neighborhood. He kills the guy waiting on him, learns his gf/wife is dead, and goes to a train/bus station to retrieve an empty suitcase. As he’s preparing to leave, there’s a time jump. He’s much older, and appears to be returning from wherever he went. -Just waiting the intro credits, I’m already wondering when it’ll be over. -Overly dramatic death -The phone ringing is EXCESSIVE. 24 times -Boob alert -Guys name is Noodles?! Hard gangster name… -Prohibition was Jan 17, 1920 - Dec 5, 1933. -This move is going to drag We see the bloody dude from the beginning, still at the bar. Noodles calls him and he is surprised, to say the least. We find out the reason Noodles returned was a letter, and that the suitcase was supposed to have $1M inside. As he reacquaints himself with the bar, he finds his old peep hole that leads to a flash back of watching a girl dance ballet. An
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