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Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
Directed by
Paul Crowder
and
John Dower
PG-13
2006
1h 37m
Documentary
,
Sport
7.2
82%
80%
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The rise and fall of the N.Y. Cosmos. The soccer team that brought Pele to America; against the backdrop of N.Y. City in the 70's.
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Cast of Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
Pelé
Self (archive footage)
Franz Beckenbauer
Self
Raphael de la Sierra
Self
Phil Woosnam
Self
Jay Emmett
Self
Werner Roth
Self
Peppe Pinton
Self
Giorgio Chinaglia
Self
Shep Messing
Self
Clive Toye
Self
Nesuhi Ertegün
Self (archive footage)
Ahmet Ertegün
Self
Matt Dillon
Narrator (Voice)
Carlos Alberto
Self
Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Packed with observations and recrimations, many of the latter aimed at or by Chinaglia, which makes for some gossipy entertainment.
Oregonian
Shawn Levy
... the film is bursting with astonishing old footage, hip tunes, vivid interviews and you-couldn't- make-it-up anecdotes.
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
... treats its audience like a bunch of attention deficit disorder cases.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
... accomplishes the minor miracle of making you mourn a sports team you likely never knew existed in the first place.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Once in a Lifetime would have benefited greatly from historical and outside perspective, but the story on screen is such a kick that even monotone narrator Matt Dillon gets caught up in the excitement.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
An energetic and often enjoyable documentary, particularly for soccer fans.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Once in a Lifetime does a wonderful job of showing that this collection of foreigners playing a foreign sport forged one of the great American sports stories.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie is only so-so, borrowing a little from the VH-1 school of popumentary but lacking the snazzy production values.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Lively, free-wheeling amusement.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Far more entertaining than it has a right to be.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Anyone who wants to relive this flamboyant but fleeting chapter in America's uneven soccer history should not miss this.
Chicago Tribune
Kevin M. Williams
You don't need to be a soccer fan to, like Cosmos fans, fall for this captivating tale, told in Rashomon-like style.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
No Hollywood scriptwriter would dare make up a tale as outrageously unlikely -- but, as it happens, true -- as the one so entertainingly told in the documentary Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Once in a Lifetime performs a belated autopsy on the Cosmos and the North American Soccer League and basically concludes that they died of impatience.
Newsday
Stephen Williams
Told in a breezy, fast-cut style, and backed by a boisterous soundtrack that ranges from Puccini to James Brown, Lifetime focuses on the players -- on the field and off -- that made the Cosmos such a super, if short-lived, team.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Giddy, gossipy and endearingly unslick, Once in a Lifetime chronicles the rise and fall of the most famous soccer team in the United States with slapdash glee.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
If nothing else, the energetic documentary Once In A Lifetime proves that an audience once existed for soccer in this country, and could be cultivated again.
Village Voice
Bill Gallo
This intermittently fascinating documentary chronicles the rise and fall of the Cosmos--which is also the rise and fall of U.S. soccer.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
...a stylish scramble of evocative footage, groovy music, and crazy-candid reminiscences from key players still proud to score.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
The film is an uncanny reflection of soccer itself: intermittently engaging but generally a dramatically inert bore.
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