The Age of Innocence (1993)

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Writers (WGA):

Edith Wharton (novel)
Jay Cocks (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

1 October 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

In a world of tradition. In an age of innocence. They dared to break the rules.

Plot:

Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

Plot Keywords:

Repressed Love | Upper Class | Male Female Relationship | Social Climber | Sensuality

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 10 wins & 13 nominations

Cast

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

Runtime:

139 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Brazil:Livre | South Korea:12 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Chile:TE | Finland:S | Germany:6 | Iceland:L | Peru:PT | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | USA:PG | Canada:PG (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Albany, New York, USA

Company:

Cappa Production

Trivia:

Martin Scorsese set up a deal with 20th Century Fox to write the screenplay with Jay Cocks. Fox attached a budget of $32 million to the project. Before anything came of it, however, Fox head 'Joe Roth' told Scorsese that he would be first in line to see the picture, he just couldn't finance it. Universal then stepped in, although they were not prepared to spend any more than $30 million. Finally Mark Canton of Columbia - with whom Scorsese had made Goodfellas (1990) - offered the full budget.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: The painting, "Le Printemps" or "The Birth of Spring" by Bouguereau which hangs in the Beaufort's red drawing room was painted in 1886, while the film is set in the 1870s.

Quotes:

Newland: We should travel everywhere.
Louisa van der Luyden: But not Naples. Doctor Bencomb says there is a fever there.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "HBO First Look: The Making of 'Girl, Interrupted' (#7.1)" (2000)

Soundtrack:

Faust

Will eventually be seen as Scorsese's masterpiece

The greatest movie adaptations are usually made from novels of the second or third rank, the adaptations of the greatest novels-The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Ullysses, are not very good, while Dodsworth,and The Magnificent Ambersons are ranked among the classics. This is yet another example.Scorsese surpasses his material to make a beautiful, bravura nmasterpiece. This is an expressionist film, in which we enter the soul of Newland Archer, all too proper gentleman and would bre free spirit, as he is torn between the allure of seeming non-conformity-the Countess Olenska, and the demand s of tradition and duty-May Welland.People who think its an atypical Scorsese film have never-and i repeat , NEVER paid careful attention to his films, or have only wateched them for the violence and the f-words.Scorsese has always been a tormented moralist, obsessed with loyalty, honor and tradition. This anmazingly rich, often witty film, grows on you with each repeat viewing