![]() ![]() It’s good that it takes itself so seriously, but Allison Burnett’s screenplay is stodgy and oh so boring.Īnthony LaPaglia, Vera Farmiga, J K Simmons, Mary Beth Hurt, Sherry Stringfield, Jill Hennessy and Sam Trammell are also in the good cast, giving their usual reliable turns.īroadway great Elaine Stritch passed away on July 17 2014, aged 89. ![]() Gere is pretty good, while Elaine Stritch’s typically acid little turn as old Dolly runs like a breath of fresh air through the fetid little thing. Tonight's movie is the romantic drama, 'Autumn in New York,' a production of Lakeshore Entertainment released in 2000. But his feelings change when he finds she is terminally ill and he really falls for her.ĭirector Joan Chen’s plush, well-acted but maudlin old-style 2000 romantic melodrama is fair enough but way out of its time, giving the strong impression that they might have made – much better and with more conviction – in the 1940s. Welcome to 'Saturday Night at the Movies.' I'm your host, Glenn Holland. Richard Gere stars as cynical ageing playboy and restaurant owner Will Keane, who embarks on a casual fling with the cute and much younger Charlotte Fielding (Winona Ryder). The age difference that so many emphasize (impossible to develop the right chemistry with such an age gap, there is something 'immoral' in such May-Autumn couplings, etc.) is not so uncommon in real life-'trophy' women often are even younger. Autumn in New York ** (2000, Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Elaine Stritch) – Classic Movie Review 1572
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