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The Age of Innocence (1993)

Genre
Drama / Romance
   
Synopsis

Martin Scorsese directs Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder in a brilliant adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, The Age Of Innocence chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1880's.

Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is an upstanding lawyer who secretly longs for a more passionate life. Engaged to the lovely but ordinary socialite May Welland (Winona Ryder), Newland resigns himself to a life of quiet complacency. But when May's unconventional cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer) returns to New York amid social and sexual scandal, Newland becomes captivated by her mysterious authority and outstanding beauty. Now he must choose between May and the world he knows, and Ellen and the world he dreams of having.

A spellbinding portrait of hidden romance and regret, The Age Of Innocence is a timeless masterpiece interwoven with intrigue, suspicion, guilt and passion.

   
Directed by  
Martin Scorsese
   
Written by  
Edith Wharton (novel); Jay Cocks (screenplay); Martin Scorsese (screenplay).
   
Starring  
Daniel Day-Lewis (Newland Archer); Michelle Pfeiffer (Ellen Olenska); Winona Ryder (May Welland); Alexis Smith (Louisa van der Luyden); Geraldine Chaplin (Mrs. Welland); Mary Beth Hurt (Regina Beaufort); Alec McCowen (Sillerton Jackson); Richard E. Grant (Larry Lefferts); Miriam Margolyes (Mrs. Mingott); Robert Sean Leonard (Ted Archer); Siân Phillips (Mrs. Archer); Jonathan Pryce (Rivière); Michael Gough (Henry van der Luyden); Joanne Woodward (Narrator (voice)); Stuart Wilson (Julius Beaufort). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
 
Length (mins):
 139
Ratings:
 PG (U)
Language:
 ENG
Big 5 Oscar Wins:
 0
Big 5 Oscar Noms:
 1
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