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Autumn in New York
Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to reevaluate what they want out of life, even as fate threatens to steal away their future.
2000 · Directed by Joan Chen · 103 min · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 7 frames
Tagline
He fell in love for the first time. She fell in love forever.
Plot
Will Keane is a successful 48-year-old restaurateur and womanizer. Free-spirited haberdasher Charlotte Fielding celebrates her 22nd birthday in his upscale Manhattan restaurant and he immediately notices her. Her grandmother introduces them. Will learns that Charlotte is the daughter of his ex-girlfriend Katy, who died in a car accident shortly after Charlotte's birth.
The next day, Will calls and asks Charlotte to make a hat for his date to an upcoming benefit dinner. When she delivers it to his apartment a few days later, he invites her to accompany him to the formal benefit under the guise that he had been stood up. They get to know each other and become lovers. The next morning while having breakfast on his terrace, Will explains that their relationship has no future. She acknowledges this, revealing she is dying of a heart condition.
The next day, they walk through the fall foliage in Central Park, and Charlotte takes Will's watch, saying she will return it when he forgets she has it. At his restaurant, they prepare a meal together for his staff and he begins to fall in love. Back at his apartment, Charlotte has an episode of severe chest pain and Will rushes her to the hospital. The doctor explains that her neuroblastoma, a rare illness in young adults, has produced a tumor near her heart. She is estimated to have only one year to live.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Allison Burnett
- Cinematography: Gu Changwei
- Edited by: Ruby Yang
- Music: Gabriel Yared
- Production design: Mark Friedberg
- Produced by: Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg, Amy Robinson
Cast
- Richard Gere as Will Keane
- Winona Ryder as Charlotte Fielding
- Anthony LaPaglia as John Volpe
- Elaine Stritch as Dolores "Dolly" Talbot
- Vera Farmiga as Lisa Tyler
- Sherry Stringfield as Sarah
- Jill Hennessy as Lynn
- J.K. Simmons as Dr. Tom Grandy
- Sam Trammell as Simon
- Mary Beth Hurt as Dr. Sibley
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Lakeshore Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Budget: $65,000,000
- Box office: $90,726,668
- Themes: dying and death, new love, love of one's life, unexpected happiness, kiss, success, love, relationship, unhappiness, woman director
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