Once Upon A Time In America

Overnight Sensation

Film.com's FREE movie of the week "Overnight Sensation" follows two friends as they attempt to overcome all the trials and tribulations involved in trying to sell a screenplay at the Sundance Film Festival.

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Rating: R

Running Time: 227 mins. (director's cut)

Running Time: 144 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring:

Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld, Burt Young, Joe Pesci, Danny Aiello, William Forsythe, James Hayden

director:

Sergio Leone

Once Upon a Time in America

Drama about the rise and fall of Jewish-American gangsters in New York at the beginning of the century through the 1960s.

June 4, 2003

This 1984 gangster epic is the last film directed by Sergio Leone, master of the spaghetti Western. Tracking the criminal rise of two Jewish immigrants, played by Robert De Niro and James Woods, over nearly fifty years, the film is Leone's dream and nightmare of America.

The good news is that this two-disc set contains a 227-minute cut of the film and not the butchered 139-minute version released in 1984. The bad news is it's not the 265-minute cut shown on Italian TV or the purported…