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Once In A Lifetime (The Extraordinary Story Of The New York Cosmos)
Once In A Lifetime (The Extraordinary Story Of The New York Cosmos)
Summary: In the 1970s the New York Cosmos were a superstar soccer team that attracted thousands of fans to their games, almost raising the sport to the level of football and baseball in America. ONCE IN A LIFETIME charters the Cosmos' spectacular rise and fall.
In the 1970s the New York Cosmos were a superstar soccer team that attracted thousands of fans to their games, almost raising the sport to the level of football and baseball in America. ONCE IN A LIFETIME charts the Cosmos' spectacular rise and fall. In the 1970s, a group of high-profile businessmen, led by Warner Bros. head Steve Ross and Atlantic Records gurus Ahmet and Nehui Ertegun, decided to bring the world's most popular international sport, soccer, to the United States in a big way. So they gathered their resources, called in favours, and bought the New York Cosmos, part of a fledgling, somewhat pathetic new league. Within a few years they had collected many of the game's greatest players, creating a nearly unstoppable team that were as successful on the field as they were in the gossip pages and such clubs as Studio 54--until their egos got in the way. Paul Crowder and John Dower tell this fascinating story of greed, power, and fame in an entertaining documentary. Crowder and Dower mix in terrific archival footage of the Cosmos with 1970s-era Manhattan and new interviews with many of the primary characters, including Cosmos stars Giorgio Chinaglia (cast as the villain), Carlos Alberto, Franz Beckenbauer, Shep Messing (who talks about posing naked for a women's magazine), soccer lover Henry Kissinger, broadcasters Marv Albert and Paul Gardner, Rodney Marsh, journalist David Hirshey, and many others. Interestingly, Pelé, the man whose multimillion-dollar signing started it all, declined to participate in the project, although he's well represented in the movie. From the patchy field at Randalls Island to packed houses at Giants stadium, ONCE IN A LIFETIME--narrated by Matt Dillon (CRASH)--details the rise and fall of the mighty Cosmos, set to a great 1970s soundtrack that includes songs from Kool and the Gang, Steely Dan, Junior Walker, Donna Summer, the Commodores, and the Main Ingredient, helping make the film a fabulous document of a crazy time.
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| Aspect Ratio: | 1.78, 16:9 |
| Main Language: | English |
| Region: | Region 2 |
| Special Features: | Commentary By John Battesk (Producer) and Paul Crowder (Co-director), Two Deleted Sequences, The Real Hunt For Pele Featurette |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Release Date: | September 25, 2006 |
| Runtime: | 95 minutes |
| Certification: | |
| Catalogue Number: | P 920101000 |
| Keywords: | New, Story, Cosmos, York, Once, Lifetime, Extraordinary, Sell |
| Genre: | Documentaries & Biographies |
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