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
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). ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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New York restaurateur Will Keane (Richard Gere) is an infamous verging-on-50 playboy ... more
master of the no-commitment seduction - until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding (Winona Ryder). Charlotte is half Will's age and tw...
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