Production Year: 2000 - Drama - Director: Joan Chen - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Elaine Stritch, Anthony La Paglia, Sherry Stringfield, Jill Hennessy, Mary Beth Hurt more
Following in a long tradition of Hollywood May-December romances, AUTUMN IN NEW YORK is the story of a pair who finds love when each least expects it. Will Keane (Richard Gere) is... more
This review already contains more than 120 words. As a Ciao member you could earn up to £5 with this review.
Postage & Packaging: Free! Availability: Temporarily out of stock. Order now and we'll deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date as soon as we have more information. Your credit card will not be charged until we ship the item....
autumn in New York. Richard Gere stars as restaurateur/lady's man Will, while Winona Ryder plays the airy-fairy, oh-too-delicate-for-this-world Charlotte. Will is 48, Charlotte is 22, and it just keeps getting creepier: Will actually used to hang out with Charlotte's mom. She plays artily with beads and sparkly things, he notices how elfin and different she is (inspiring such stomach-churning dialogue as "I find you completely unprecedented and therefore utterly unpredictable"), and soon they're in love. Ah, but it's doomed: she has a tumor in her heart (just in case you missed the significance, Charlotte says "I'm sick in my heart"). Does Charlotte have enough time left to teach Will to truly love? While Gere does a stoic job, Ryder spends a lot of time being darling and winsome, aided by the fact that Charlotte has managed to catch one of those special movie diseases where you never look bad or get tubes stuck up your nose. Director Joan Chen doesn't have much of a script to work with, but at least she knows how to pick a cinematographer; the whole movie is shot in gorgeous autumnal colours. Several excellent supporting actors are trapped in this movie: Jill Hennessey and Anthony LaPaglia do their very best, but what can they do in the face of such a sweeping, creepy love?Autumn in New Yorkis nothing if not an earnest movie, and it certainly means well. Much like Charlotte, it seems to cry, "Can you let me love you? Please?". The answer is an emphatic "No". --Ali Davis, Amazon.com
Production Year: 1999 - Drama - Director: Andrew Tennant - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-Fat, Bai Ling, Tom Felton, Syed Alwi, Keith Chin, Randall Duk Kim
Production Year: 1995 - Drama - Director: Ang Lee - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Greg Wise, Hugh Laurie, Robert Hardy
Production Year: 2001 - Drama - Director: Brian Henson - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Matthew Modine, Vanessa Redgrave, Mia Sara, Daryl Hannah, Jon Voight, Richard Attenborough
Production Year: 1997 - Drama - Director: Ronan O'Leary - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: James Spader, Anne Brochet, Barry McGovern, Anna Massey
This product has not yet been reviewed. Rate it now
A review by janharper on Autumn In New York (DVD) July 7th, 2001
Author's product rating:
Did you enjoy it?
Indifferent to it
Story
Very ordinary
Characters / Performances
Unmemorable
Special Effects
Unmemorable
How does it compare to similar films?
Unmemorable
Advantages:
none
Disadvantages:
same old story
Recommend to potential buyers:
no
Full review
Take your tissues with you if you must go to see this film. It ends up squeezing out every emotion you ever had, so you would probably be better off if you didn't go.
This romantic drama is all about a love affair that happens in New York. Chef, Will Keane, played by Richard Gere, doesn't believe in forever. He just wants to sow his oats today and off he goes. Things change!
He meets an attractive young designer called Charlotte (Winona Ryder). She has been brought up by her bad tempered grandmother Dolly (Elaine Strich).
hE'S 44 and she's 22 but they don't see a problem. However, just about everybody else does. Dolly is very wary of this arrangement.
The pair of them carry on regardless but their happiness is spoilt when Charlotte is diagnosed with serious heart desease (that old chestnut!). She can have an operation but its not likely it will work and its risky so she decides not to have it.
There are some very sensual close-ups of the lovers and some beautiful, romantic scenery, including the falling leaves in New York's Central Park, but these lovers just seem convincing. It's hard to believe that this pair are in love as they just don't work well together.
The story drags on towards the end and really pushes every emotional buttonthe audience has at the end. There is lots 'wring out your hanky stuff' here and it goes over the top at times.
This is a very ordinary weepy type movie. The storyline isn't exactly original and Gere and Ryder are very badly cast as lovers. It's 105 minutes of tugging on the heartstrings.
I personally wouldn't recommend this film to anyone. There isn't anything bad enough in it for me to say it's awful, but its just not very special, if you know what I mean.
Wait until the DVD comes out if you are a Richard Gere fan and spend your money in the pub.
Advantages: On a rainy day, you'll be sitting in a dry place in the theater Disadvantages: Even Gere and Ryder fans can't possibly recommend this dreadful, shmaltzy flick
When MGM did announce that there weren't going to be any advance screenings of "Autumn In New York", rumors started spreading. Director Joan Chen's ("Xiu Xiu") second movie must be a dud. MGM's reasoning was that there are plot twists that needed protecting. I have to say that MGM has a point. I don't want to know the whole story before I go and see a movie, either. Hence, I won't tell you about that sacred plot twist.
Is "Autumn In New York" as ... ...likes Richard Gere and Winona Ryder, it sure is tough to say anything less than favourable about this movie. However, I have to say that how Allison Burnett got away with what looks like a first draft of a script is everybody's guess. There's absolutely no dramatic tension, the characters are stock characters with next to zero development, and the minor characters seem to be added to fluff the whole thing up so that this brittle skeleton of a story ...
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Advantages: cinematography Disadvantages: story, lack of chemistry between leads
I saw this 'tearjerker' on a flight coming back from New Zealand in February, and frankly I'd not given it a second thought since I saw an advert in the paper for it and thought 'my god, they've released it in the cinema?'. Frankly it's a straight to video, or straight to the TV to be honest.
However, with heavyweights like Richard Gere and Winona Ryder playing the leads, what else can you expect. Even Elaine Strich thrown in for good measure who ... ...the title) it starts with Ryder celebrating a twenty-something birthday and Gere then appears on the screen. He'd previously dated her late mother, and of course Granny (Strich) is less than happy when Gere starts pursuing Ryder. His reputation as a womanising self-centred restauranteur doesn't exactly make him family material, particularly when Ryder has a serious heart condition which means she'll be lucky to see out her twenties.
Of course there ...
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Advantages: Romantic, interesting, you watch that film without having a breath Disadvantages: Sad end
Summary of the film (some information used from the back of the DVD):
Will Keane is the master of no-commitment seduction, until he meets Charlotte Fielding. Charlotte is half Will's age and twice his match; a free spirit experiencing the excitement of adult life for the first time. For Will, this was to be another quick and easy romance: but nothing about Will and Charlotte's encounters are quick and easy. Instead they are rife with intergenerational ... ...and connection.
My point of view for the film:
It’s a lovely romance taking part in luxurious and fascinating New York. Main parts of this film are Richard Geer and Guinona Rider. The story starts when a young girl (Guinona Rider) is meeting in her birthday party in a very posh restaurant the owner of the restaurant (Richard Geer), a man known around New York as one of the most successful rich men that many women would like to be their girlfriend. ...
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Following in a long tradition of Hollywood May-December romances, AUTUMN IN NEW YORK is the story of a pair who finds love when each least expects it. Will Keane (Richard Gere) is a successful restaurant owner and bachelor playboy with more "girlfriends" than he knows what to do with but no serious relationships. He meets Charlotte (Winona Ryder), the daughter of an old flame, and is immediately interested in her. The two develop a casual love affair, but Charlotte has a hidden secret: a terminal heart condition. As the unlikely pair continues the relationship, they grow closer than either could have imagined, proving that love is rarely convenient or easy. While struggling with his feelings toward Charlotte, Will also has to deal with a mystery woman (Vera Farmiga) who holds a secret from his past, and his own sense of mortality as he gets older. AUTUMN IN NEW YORK is an old-fashioned melodramatic love story that makes up for its familiar plot with glossy movie-star performances from Gere and Ryder, plus lush cinematography and elegant direction from actress-turned-director Joan Chen, whose touch makes New York City romantic in a unique and understated way.
Professional reviews
Review: "...A film that is lovely to look at, capturing the New York cityscape with a tone and beauty last seen in director Woody Allen's MANHATTAN..." (Box Office, p.73, 01/10/2000)
Ciao
Listed on Ciao since : 12/12/2000
Compare Autumn In New York (DVD) to other similar Drama
![Autumn in New York [DVD] [2001]](http://picnica.ciao.com/uk/83405210.jpg)
This product has not yet been reviewed. 
