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Robert De Niro
Tuesday Weld
Joe Pesci
James Woods
Elizabeth McGovern
Treat Williams

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Noodles, a Jewish gangster, returns to his stomping grounds where he tries to forget the past and the tragic events that occurred.

03/20/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Once upon a Time...

I often go into the viewing of a long film thinking that my patience may not hold out for long enough to see the creative scope and vision in full, that I might forget how the story began. However, having recently seen two movies of similar length - Das Boot and Seven Samurai - both of which I enjoyed, I was willing to put the effort in to see if this critic's favourite could justify it's seemingly endless supply of accolades. The short answer is, it does.

It all starts so inauspiciously. We see Noodles (De Niro at the pinnacle of his abilities) a broken, thoughtful man retreading his steps through the town he grew up in. At this start point we have no frame of reference with which to judge this man, no way of telling what his motivations are. Through longer and longer flashbacks we ar...

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09/04/2007 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

America by Leone.

The OUAT series are Leone's vision about different momments in some countries history. In this case, America. Again, as the dollar's trilogy and the previous OUAT movies, this one is an unforgeatable masterpiece, that Leone had to cut (saddly). Own very unique aesthetic director's concepts and marvelous acting by the whole cast makes this movie a great piece of filmmaking.

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