

Once Upon a Time in America
Crime, passion and lust for power.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $30M
- Box office
- $5.5M
- Language
- English
- new york city
- regret
- lovesickness
- rape
- life and death
- sexual abuse
- street gang
- corruption
- based on novel or book
- prohibition era
- gangster
- sadistic
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Behind the camera
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Produced in
Italy, United States of America
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- PremiereAMumbai Film Festival21 Oct 2012
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR1 Jun 1984
- PremiereNew York Film Festival12 Oct 1984
- Theatrical (limited)New York City, New York (Uncut Version)14 Oct 1984
- TV1 Aug 1985
- Theatrical (limited)RLos Angeles, California23 Oct 1992
- Theatrical (limited)RNew York City, New York (Director's Cut)23 Nov 2012
- PremiereNew York Film Festival27 Sept 2014
United KingdomGB
- PremiereEdinburgh International Film Festival18 Aug 1984
- Theatrical185 Oct 1984
- Physical18VHS3 Jun 1986
- Physical18DVD23 Jun 2003
- Physical18Blu-ray7 Feb 2011
- Physical18Extended Director’s Cut (Blu-ray)20 Oct 2014
United Arab EmiratesAE
- PhysicalDVD8 Mar 2019
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalR 18+4 Oct 1984
CanadaCA
- PremiereRMontréal30 May 1984
- Theatrical18A1 Jun 1984
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+1811 Oct 1984
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1819 Oct 1984
CameroonCM
- Theatrical8 Jun 1984
ChileCL
- Theatrical31 May 1984
ChinaCN
- PremiereBeijing International Film Festival23 Apr 2015
- PremiereBeijing International Film Festival (4K Extended Version)19 Apr 2024
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical20 Dec 1984
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Once Upon a Time in America was released on 23 May 1984.
Audience reviews
3- A8/10
Andres Gomez
3/15/2013
Stereotypical Sergio Leone film with endless waitings and sight crossings. One of the performances that made Robert de Niro de actor he is and an interesting way of telling a story and the evolution of America during the years of the alcohol prohibition.
- F8/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
10/10/2022
**It's an excellent film, which proves the importance of good post-production, and how bad editing can ruin the whole thing.** There are certain films that impress us so much when we see them that we are really surprised when we discover how ignored they were by the great awards. This film is one of them: I was really shocked to find that it wasn't even nominated for an Oscar or a Golden Globe… and I had to read a…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
5/25/2023
Told by way of a really potent (and well scored by Morricone) retrospective, this sits us down and takes us through a forty year period in the life of the now down-at-heel "Noodles" (Robert De Niro) and of the development of the city of New York. The contents of an old briefcase serve as an aide memoire as the retrospective illustrates just how he and three of his childhood friends decided that the gutter was not for…
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