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Release Date: 1984

Cast: Dutch Miller, Robert De Niro, James Hayden, Treat Williams, Elizabeth McGovern, Richard Bright, Richard Foronjy, Darlanne Fluegel, Tuesday Weld, Jennifer Connelly, Danny Aiello, Brian Bloom ...MORE

Cast: Dutch Miller, Robert De Niro, James Hayden, Treat Williams, Elizabeth McGovern, Richard Bright, Richard Foronjy, Darlanne Fluegel, Tuesday Weld, Jennifer Connelly, Danny Aiello, Brian Bloom, Burt Young, Joe Pesci, Robert Harper, William Forsythe, James Russo, Larry Rapp, James Woods, Mario Brega ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Crime, Film Adaptation, Gangster, Ensemble Film, Drama Film, Period Piece

Once Upon a Time in America is a 1984 Italian epic crime film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. The story chronicles the lives of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York City's world of organized crime. The film explores themes of childhood friendships, love, lust, greed, betrayal, loss, broken relationships, and the rise of mobsters in American society. Leone adapted the story from the novel The Hoods, written by Harry Grey, while filming Once Upon a Time in the West. From there, Leone began production of Once Upon a Time... MORE

Once Upon a Time in America is a 1984 Italian epic crime film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. The story chronicles the lives of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York City's world of organized crime. The film explores themes of childhood friendships, love, lust, greed, betrayal, loss, broken relationships, and the rise of mobsters in American society. Leone adapted the story from the novel The Hoods, written by Harry Grey, while filming Once Upon a Time in the West. From there, Leone began production of Once Upon a Time in America. The film went through various casting developments and production issues before filming began in 1982. The original version by the director was 269 minutes (4 hours and 29 minutes) long, but when the film premiered out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, Leone had cut it down to 229 minutes (3 hours and 49 minutes) to appease the distributors. This was the version that was to be shown in European cinemas. However, for the US release on June 1, 1984, Once Upon a Time in America was edited down even further to 139 minutes (2 hours and 19 minutes) by the studio and against LESS