Autumn In New York (Autumn In New York (DVD))

Member Name: sharktrager

Product:	Autumn In New York (DVD)
Date:	03/08/01 (67 review reads)
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Advantages: Richard Gere, Winona Ryder

Disadvantages: They're in love

AUTUMN IN NEW YORK is directed by Joan Chen, who is better known in some circles as having played Josie Packard in David Lynch's surreal TV show TWIN PEAKS. I wasn't aware until now that she had ever done any directing herself.

However, she has and the result is AUTUMN IN NEW YORK. The movie stars Richard Gere and Winona Ryder. Gere seems to me to always be playing characters who fall in love with women who are WAY too young for him (for example Julia Roberts in both PRETTY WOMAN and RUNAWAY BRIDE), and here he does the same - only this time it's Winona Ryder who he falls for (who is, in my opinion, by far a better actress than Roberts).

In this movie Gere plays Will Keane, who is in his 50s and runs a restaurant. He falls in love with Ryder's character (Charlotte Fielding), who is only 21. Unfortunately she is terminally ill, and this only adds to the problems that a romance with this big an age difference has to face.

With these two stars in the movie it carries itself off reasonably well, although I do find the age-difference to be rather distasteful. I truly believe that if two people are in love then age doesn't matter, but 30 years does seem to be pushing it a bit! Then again, Gene Kelly was 45 years older than his third wife, and that's an even bigger age difference!!

So, if you can get over that part of the storyline, this is a reasonable way to spend a couple of hours.

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