Movies

November, 1993

Fine China, heirloom silver and elegant place settings at formal dinners often upstage the plot in The Age of Innocence (Columbia). Director Martin Scorsese, the man who made Mean Streets and remade Cape Fear, moves to alien turf in Edith Wharton's austere study of unrequited love set in the stiflingly small world of New York society back in 1870. Innocence is the rueful tale of Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), a wealthy young lawyer who marries the wrong woman (Winona Ryder) because it's the...