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Once Upon a Time in America has a chequered history, having been chopped from its original 229-minute director's cut to 139 minutes for its theatrical release. The longer edition presented here benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, as told in flashback by an ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams
Directed By: Sergio Leone

Remember the outfit Cher wore to the Oscars when she won an Academy Award for her performance in this 1987 film? Ay-yi-yi. The actress' more retiring character in this infectious comedy leaps several psychological hurdles just giving her hair a permanent. But then the original screenplay of Moonstruck, by John Patrick Shanley (Joe Versus the Volcano), is a wonderful, gently satirical ...

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Vincent Gardenia
Directed By: Norman Jewison

Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) made his American directorial debut with Leon, a stylised thriller about a French hit man (Jean Reno) who takes in an American girl (Natalie Portman) being pursued by a corrupt killer cop (Gary Oldman). Oldman is a little more unhinged than he should be, but there is something genuinely irresistible about the story line and the relationship between Reno ...

Manufacturer: Touchstone Home Video
Starring: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello, Peter Appel
Directed By: Luc Besson

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Pena, Danny Aiello, Macaulay Culkin
Directed By: Adrian Lyne

Spike Lee's incendiary look at race relations in America, circa 1989, is so colourful and exuberant for its first three-quarters that you can almost forget the terrible confrontation that the movie inexorably builds toward. Do the Right Thing is a joyful, tumultuous masterpiece--maybe the best film ever made about race in America, revealing racial prejudices and stereotypes in all their ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito
Directed By: Spike Lee

Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) made his American directorial debut with Leon, a stylised thriller about a French hit man (Jean Reno) who takes in an American girl (Natalie Portman) being pursued by a corrupt killer cop (Gary Oldman). Oldman is a little more unhinged than he should be, but there is something genuinely irresistible about the story line and the relationship between Reno ...

Manufacturer: Columbia TriStar
Starring: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello, Peter Appel
Directed By: Luc Besson

"I've just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything." So says Cecilia (Mia Farrow), the central figure in Woody Allen's lyrically humorous Purple Rose of Cairo. The era is the Great Depression, and she is the bullied wife who finds escape in romantic movies, falling in love with the explorer hero, Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels), of the eponymous film. So far, nothing ...

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman, Stephanie Farrow
Directed By: Woody Allen

Bruce Willis's awful, 1991 vanity piece is an abuse of audience goodwill and a waste of a good cast and director (Michael Lehmann of Heathers). The story of Hudson Hawk, cowritten by Willis, concerns a cat burglar pressured into stealing precious art, including some from the Vatican. But the script is just a convenience upon which Willis piles his vaguely boorish brand of hip irony, ...

Manufacturer: Uca
Starring: Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, Richard E. Grant
Directed By: Michael Lehmann

Set in an elegant, but hectic, New York restaurant over the course of a highly eventful evening, Dinner Rush is a magnificent piece of ensemble playing--wholly satisfying from soup to nuts. Danny Aiello stars as Louis, a bookmaker who also owns the restaurant but is dismayed that, under the aegis of his son and autocratic master chef Udo (Edoardo Ballerini) the kitchen serves up trendy ...

Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution
Starring: Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, John Rothman, Frank Bongiorno, Lexie Sperduto
Directed By: Bob Giraldi

Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Teri Hatcher, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Charlize Theron, Greg Cruttwell
Directed By: John Herzfeld