Of course, you’ve got The Ten Commandments. But we’re not seeing many onscreen seders. Seems like a missed opportunity—and if Gossip Girl’s planning one, it’s high time that Hollywood dipped its parsley in some saltwater (onscreen, we mean). Anyhow, here’s a clip from Sergio Leone’s glorious 1984 epic, Once Upon a Time in America, largely set in Jewish Brooklyn in the 1920s. This scene actually occurs on Passover; in it, you can hear a preteenage Jennifer Connelly utter the line, “Nice people don’t drink on Pesach; they go to the synagogue” (at the 3:30 mark). That luscious score, meanwhile, is by genius composer Ennio Morricone.









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