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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
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229 minutes, European version. Sergio Leone moves through friendship, crime and recollection as though the past is something a man keeps revising. The childhood passages matter because the adult relationships carry their promises and humiliations forward. This is a brutal, sexually violent film whose nostalgia is deeply compromised. Avoid the much shorter American theatrical rearrangement; the long version's shifting time is central to its effect.
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About Once Upon a Time in America
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.