The Age of Innocence is a 1993 American historical romantic drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Scorsese and Jay Cocks. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder and Miriam Margolyes.
The film screenplay is an adaptation of the 1920 novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.
Plot
Wealthy lawyer Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is engaged to sweet socialite May Welland (Winona Ryder) in 1870s New York. On the surface, it is a perfect match. But when May's beautiful cousin Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), who is estranged from her brutish husband, arrives in town, Newland begins to question the meaning of passion and love as he desperately pursues a relationship with Ellen, even though she has been made a social outcast by Archer's peers.
Cast
- Daniel Day-Lewis as Newland Archer
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Ellen Olenska
- Winona Ryder as May Welland
- Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Mingott
- Geraldine Chaplin as Mrs. Welland
- Michael Gough as Henry van der Luyden
- Richard E. Grant as Larry Lefferts
- Mary Beth Hurt as Regina Beaufort
- Robert Sean Leonard as Ted Archer
- Norman Lloyd as Mr. Letterblair
- Alec McCowen as Sillerton Jackson
- Siân Phillips as Mrs. Archer
- Carolyn Farina as Janey Archer
- Jonathan Pryce as Rivière
- Alexis Smith as Louisa van der Luyden
- Stuart Wilson as Julius Beaufort
- June Squibb as Mrs. Mingott's maid
- Joanne Woodward as the narrator
- Domenica Cameron-Scorsese as Katie Blenker