| Description |
1 videodisc (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD; NTSC, region 1, widescreen format, Dolby digital. |
| Note |
Based upon the novel by Edith Wharton. |
| Cast |
Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Geraldine Chaplin, Michael Gough, Richard E. Grant, Mary Beth Hurt, Robert Sean Leonard, Norman Lloyd, Miriam Margolyes, Alec McCowen, Siân Phillips, Jonathan Pryce, Alexis Smith, Stuart Wilson; narrator, Joanne Woodward. |
| Credits |
Director of photography: Michael Ballhaus ; production designer: Dante Ferretti ; editor: Thelma Schoonmaker ; costume designer: Gabriella Pescucci ; music: Elmer Bernstein ; title sequence by Elaine & Saul Bass. |
| Event |
Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1993. |
| Audience |
Rated PG for thematic elements and some mild language. |
| Summary |
In New York City in the 1870s, a rigid social code governs how people talk, walk, meet, part, dine, earn their livings, fall in love, and marry. Not a word of the code is written down anywhere, but these people have been studying it since they were born. In this elegant milieu, marriages, like treaties between nations, exist to provide for the orderly transmission of wealth; scions of old and rich families understand that their personal desires have no place in the design. One such is Newland Archer, engaged to marry pretty young May Welland. When he becomes entranced with May's cousin Ellen, the notorious Countess Olenska, every member of that class mobilizes to prevent Archer from doing anything that threatens their needs. |
| Contents |
Start -- Welland box -- Annual opera ball -- Mrs. Mingott -- Van der Luydens -- Duke of St. Austrey dinner -- Asking for his help -- Flower shop -- Aviary -- Talking business -- Shaughraun -- What's she running from -- "Is there someone else?" -- "There's another woman." -- European honeymoon -- Newport Archery Club -- Blenker house -- Boston Common -- Why the Countess stays -- Beaufort finances -- In the carriage -- Art museum -- Key to his release -- Something important to say -- Farewell dinner -- May's news -- In Paris -- Outside the apartment. |
| Note |
Special features: Filmographies [text feature]; Theatrical trailers (12 min.). |
| Language |
In English or dubbed French with optional English, French, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Spanish or Portuguese subtitles; closed-captioned. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Love -- Drama.
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Single women -- Drama.
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Young men -- Drama.
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Women -- Conduct of life -- Drama.
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
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Women -- Social conditions -- Drama.
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.
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Social classes -- Drama.
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Upper class -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Drama.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Drama.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama.
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Film adaptations.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Historical films.
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Film adaptations.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Scorsese, Martin. Screenwriter. Director.
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Cocks, Jay. Screenwriter.
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De Fina, Barbara. Producer.
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Day-Lewis, Daniel. Actor.
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Pfeiffer, Michelle, 1957- Actor.
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Ryder, Winona, 1971- Actor.
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Chaplin, Geraldine, 1944- Actor.
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Gough, Michael, 1916-2011. Actor.
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Grant, Richard E., 1957- Actor.
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Hurt, Mary Beth. Actor.
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Leonard, Robert Sean, 1969- Actor.
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Lloyd, Norman, 1914-2021. Actor.
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Margolyes, Miriam. Actor.
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McCowen, Alec. Actor.
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Phillips, Siân, 1933- Actor.
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Pryce, Jonathan. Actor.
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Smith, Alexis, 1921-1993. Actor.
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Wilson, Stuart, 1946- Actor.
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Woodward, Joanne, 1930- Narrator.
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Age of innocence.
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Columbia Pictures.
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Cappa Productions.
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Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)
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| Note |
Title on French subtitles: Temp de l'innocence |
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Title on Spanish subtitles: Edad de la inocencia |
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Title on Portuguese subtitles: Época da inocência |
| ISBN |
0767848942 |
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9780767848947 |
| Standard No. |
043396526372 |
| Music No. |
52637 Columbia TriStar Home Video |
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