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Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
Newly released from prison, Bobby scoffs at the chance to earn an honest living in his father's construction business and gets caught back up in a life of inescapable crime. When forced to make a life altering decision the truth is revealed that he was too blind to see.
February 24, 1977 in Key West, Florida, USA
March 15, 1979 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
20 October 1942, New York City, New York, USA
16 February 1958, Newark, New Jersey, USA
April 30, 2013
As far as derivative crime sagas go, Paul Borghese's film might represent the new gold standard of shameless barrel-scraping.
April 30, 2013
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn's vision of the Mafia comes filtered through a needlessly complex screenplay, as if the creators felt the need to prove they've seen a few Arnaud Desplechin films alongside Goodfellas.
May 02, 2013
Packing the screen with wiseguy-story regulars - like Vincent Pastore and a limp Tony Darrow, perhaps distracted by his recent legal difficulties - is fruitless when your movie is as pathetically inept as this one.
May 02, 2013
Cathy Moriarty and other Scorsese alums pop up, but these mean streets feel too derivative to thrill.
May 05, 2013
Solid performances can't save the film from its banal, convoluted screenplay that leaves no room for interpretation or subtlety.
May 03, 2013
"GoodFellas" is just one of the movies that did this all much better before.