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The Age of Innocence

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• Romance
• Drama

• 1993
• Martin Scorsese
• 132 mins
• 12A

Summary

Period romantic drama based on the novel by Edith Wharton, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder. 19th-century New York: young lawyer Newland Archer's engagement to May Welland is disrupted by the arrival of Ellen Olenska, a glamorous countess on the brink of divorcing her Polish husband.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

David Parkinson

Eyebrows were raised when Martin Scorsese announced he was going to adapt Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about polite New York society in the 1870s. Yet, influenced by The Heiress and The Magnificent Ambersons, this is a directorial triumph, with the camera unobtrusively accumulating the small details that help make the story of Newland Archer and the Countess Olenska so compelling. Credit must also go here to cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and production designer Dante Ferretti. Some of the cast, notably Winona Ryder, seem a little stiff, but Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer excel in conveying the conflict between their passion and their breeding.

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7.2/10

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Cast

rolenameNewland ArcherDaniel Day-LewisEllen OlenskaMichelle PfeifferMay WellandWinona RyderLouisa van der LuydenAlexis SmithMrs WellandGeraldine ChaplinRegina BeaufortMary Beth HurtSillerton JacksonAlec McCowenLarry LeffertsRichard E GrantMrs MingottMiriam MargolyesTed ArcherRobert Sean LeonardMrs ArcherSian PhillipsNarratorJoanne Woodward

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rolenameDirectorMartin Scorsese

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Theatrical distributor

Radio Pictures Ltd

Released on

1994-01-28

Languages

English | Italian | French

Guidance

Sexual references

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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