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Autumn in New York is a by-the-numbers love story, right down to its opening shot of, yes, 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 48, Charlotte is 22, and it just keeps getting creepier: Will actually used to hang out with Charlotte's mom. She plays artily with beads and sparkly things, he notices how elfin and different she is (inspiring such stomach-churning dialogue as 'I find you completely unprecedented and therefore utterly unpredictable'), and soon they're in love. Ah, but it's doomed: she has a tumor in her heart (just in case you missed the significance, Charlotte says 'I'm sick in my heart!'). Does Charlotte have enough time left to teach Will to truly love? While Gere does a stoic job, Ryder spends a lot of time being darling and winsome, aided by the fact that Charlotte has managed to catch one of those special movie diseases where you never look bad or get tubes stuck up your nose. Director Joan Chen doesn't have much of a script to work with, but at least she knows how to pick a cinematographer; the whole movie is shot in gorgeous fall-leaf colors. Several excellent supporting actors are trapped in this movie: Jill Hennessey and Anthony LaPaglia do their very best, but what can they do in the face of such a sweeping, creepy love? Autumn in New York is nothing if not an earnest movie, and it certainly means well. Much like Charlotte, it seems to cry, 'Can you let me love you? Please?' No. --Ali Davis
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Autumn in New York DVD
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Rating:  - Autumn InNew York
I love the movie and it was in perfect condition as stated by the seller.
Rating: - Like a bird to a feather...
The title could not be more true to life in this movie. Rarely does such a well made movie, {besides another on Amazon I praised} could have such a title that has so many layers to the story itself.
Bring the Kleenex, girls. It's a whopper.
Rating: - Richard Gere and Winona Ryder Shine
Years ago, I spent a fair amount of time with the University of Washington's Professor Charles Johnson. For those of you who don't know, Chuck Johnson won the National Book Award in 1990 for his novel Middle Passage, and was rated by the Los Angeles Times as one of the top 10 literary short story writers in America. I'm not going to BS you with any "my good friend Chuck Johnson" stories; Chuck was best friends with one of my best friends, so I wound tagging along on numerous "visiting Chuck at his ... Read More
Rating:  - Not That Great!
This movie was one that I had wanted to see in movie theaters, but was glad that I saw it on dvd instead! It is awfully boring, sappy and filled with fluff and not much substance.
Richard Gere, in my opinion, does a poor acting job in this movie and doesn't seem all that believable as the leading man in this movie. Sure Gere makes nice eye candy, but that is about it.
Normally I enjoy the roles that Winona Ryder plays and find her acting to be wonderful.... However, I was ... Read More
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