MOVIE · 1993

The Age of Innocence

DramaRomance139 min

Engaged to a young woman from his own circle and bound to the rules of 1870s New York society, lawyer Newland Archer finds his future unsettled when his fiancée’s cousin returns, separated from her husband and carrying the stain of scandal. Daniel Day-Lewis is Archer, caught between duty and desire as family expectations close in around him. Michelle Pfeiffer’s countess moves through that world as both insider and outsider, while Winona Ryder is the sheltered cousin whose engagement ties Archer to the life already chosen for him. Martin Scorsese places the romance inside the rituals, gossip, and strict codes of Gilded Age Manhattan.