Copyright (c) 1993 Microsoft Corp.

A Columbia Pictures Release.

Director: Martin Scorsese. Producer: Barbara De Fina, Screenplay: Martin Scorsese and Day Cocks, adapted from the novel by Edith Wharton. Cinematography: Michael Ballhaus. Film Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker. Production Designer: Dante Feretti. Visual Consultant: Robin Standefer. Casting: Ellen Lewis. Costume Designer: Gabriella Pescucci. Assistant Director: Joseph Reidy.

Cast: Daniel Day Lewis (Newland Archer), Michelle Pfeiffer (Ellen Olenska), Winona Ryder (May Welland), Miriam Margolyes (Mrs. Mingott), Richard E. Grant (Larry Lefferts), Alec McGowan (Silerton Jackson), Geraldine Chaplin (Mrs. Welland), Mary Beth Hurt (Regina Beaufort), Stuart Wilson Julius Beaufort), Sian Phillips (Mrs. Archer), Caroline Farina (Janie), Michael Gough (Hen van der Luyden), Alexis Smith (Louisa van der Luyden), Norman Lloyd (Ledder Blair), Jonathan Pgce (Riviera), Domenica Scorsese (Katie Blinker), Robert Sean Leonard (Ted), Cristina Pronzati (Italian Maid), Joanne Woodward (Narrator).

Synopsis: Adapted by Scorsese end day Cocks from Edith Wharton's novel (filmed in 1924 under the same title and again in 1934 by RKO as a vehicle for John Boles and Irene Dunn, this romance is set in New York high society of the 1870s. It tells of Newland Archer (Daniel Day Lewis), a fashionable man about town, who, on the eve of his wedding, falls in love with his married cousin. Counseling her not to go ahead with her plans for a divorce, he goes ahead with his marriage, even though his true feelings have been compromised. Years later, after his children are grown and his wife has died, he gets another chance to meet his lost love, but passes it by.

Copyright (c) 1992, David Ehrenstein