Autumn in New York

He fell in love for the first time. She fell in love forever.
Autumn in New York (2000)
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Release date
Budget
$65 000 000
Revenue
$90 726 668
Director
Scenario
Allison Burnett
Composer
Producer
Photo Tom Rosenberg
Tom Rosenberg
Actors
Photo Richard Gere
Richard Gere
Will Keane
Photo Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder
Charlotte Fielding
Photo Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch
Dolores "Dolly" Talbot
Photo Vera Farmiga
Vera Farmiga
Lisa Tyler
Photo J.K. Simmons
J.K. Simmons
Dr. Tom Grandy
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Short description

Will Keane owns a successful New York restaurant and moves through life as an unattached womanizer, keeping his relationships brief and free of commitment. His routine changes when he meets Charlotte Fielding, a much younger woman whose openness and energy challenge his habits and his ideas about love. What begins as another casual romance becomes something deeper, even as Charlotte's serious illness places a limit on the time they can share. Anthony LaPaglia, Elaine Stritch, Vera Farmiga and Sherry Stringfield appear alongside the leads.

Joan Chen directed the film, her second feature after Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl, from a screenplay by Allison Burnett. Richard Gere plays Will and Winona Ryder plays Charlotte, roles that put an established star and a younger actress at the center of the story. The production, backed by Lakeshore Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, had a budget of 65 million dollars and took in about 91 million dollars worldwide, a modest return relative to its cost.

Audience responses were mixed. On IMDb the film holds 5.6 out of 10 from roughly 30,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.1 out of 10 from far fewer votes. A critics' score of 4.3 out of 10 across 71 reviews places professional opinion below the audience averages. The film runs 103 minutes.

What's left behind the scenes

  • No previews were held for film critics. Both Richard Gere and Winona Ryder publicly opposed previews, citing various reasons, while MGM released a statement saying that the actors simply did not want the film's unexpected ending to be revealed in advance.
  • Filming took place in New York from September 13 to November 17, 1999.
  • At the Halloween party, Charlotte portrays the poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and reads an excerpt from her poem "Two Butterflies": "Two butterflies, at noon, a sigh, / Floated on the farm in waltz. / Then, leaving the firmament, / They froze on a perch. / Now again in a whirlwind they swirl / In the radiance of the heavens. / Though there are not yet ports / Where they are ready to perch."
  • In the hospital, where Charlotte is recovering from surgery, Will reads her the poem "To a Young Poet" (1892-1950) by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
  • The first major Hollywood film directed by a woman director of Asian descent.

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