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 pals whose rise as crime kingpins unravels in death and corruption. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards and recounting the lives and relationships of the main characters and their friends and associates, the movie journeys from their time 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 the elderly main hero returns to New York, after many years in hiding, to look into the past.
Sergio Leone's original vision comes to life in the fully restored Extended Director's Cut with newly added 22 minutes of extended scenes.
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 pals whose rise as crime kingpins unravels in death and corruption. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards and recounting the lives and relationships of the main characters and their friends and associates, the movie journeys from their time 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 the elderly main hero returns to New York, after many years in hiding, to look into the past.
Sergio Leone's original vision comes to life in the fully restored Extended Director's Cut with newly added 22 minutes of extended scenes.