Once Upon a Time in America
IMDB Rating: 8.20, 23571 votes
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Taglines
- 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.
- As boys, they said they would die for each other. As men, they did.
Storyline
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.
Actors
| David 'Noodles' Aaronson | Robert De Niro |
| Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz | James Woods |
| Deborah Gelly | Elizabeth McGovern |
| James Conway O'Donnell | Treat Williams |
| Carol | Tuesday Weld |
| Patrick 'Patsy' Goldberg | James Hayden |
| Frankie Minaldi | Joe Pesci |
| 'Fat' Moe Gelly | Larry Rapp |
| Police Chief Vincent Aiello | Danny Aiello |
| Philip 'Cockeye' Stein | William Forsythe |
| Joe Minaldi | Burt Young |
| Eve | Darlanne Fluegel |
| Van Linden | Dutch Miller |
| Sharkey | Robert Harper |
| Chicken Joe | Richard Bright |
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Posted in: 1984, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating
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