The Age of Innocence (1993)

Matt Roush says...

HBO has stoked our fascination with America’s Gilded Age of the late 1800s with its opulent soap opera, now in its third season. The movie channel pays homage to the era with a lineup of period dramas, including two based on Edith Wharton classics. The first (at 8/7c), Martin Scorsese‘s 1993 Oscar-winning (for costume design) adaptation of The Age of Innocence, stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder. Making its TCM debut, 2000’s The House of Mirth (10:30/9:30c), from writer-director Terence Davies, stars Gillian Anderson as the tragic Lily Bart. Followed by Orson Welles‘ legendary 1942 adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s The Magnificent Ambersons (1 am/12c), which was altered and drastically cut by the studio but is still considered a classic.

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