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AUTUMN IN NEW YORK (2001)

Richard Gere, Winona Ryder (2000, MGM, 104 mins., PG-13, also on DVD)

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Release Date: Aug 11, 2000; Rated: PG-13; Video Release Date: Jan 02, 2001; Genres: Drama, Romance; With: Richard Gere and Winona Ryder; Distributor: MGM

By Ann Limpert

A prototypical ''most eligible bachelor'' (Gere) eyes a feather-fragile hatmaker (Ryder) 26 years his junior, and decides to add her to his coterie of conquests. But, conveniently, she's dying and he falls in love. Filled with numbingly simple metaphors (winter=death, spring=rebirth), this film's real collapse is brought on by its stars, who manage to make even playful flirtation congeal into nauseating goo. Director Joan Chen bathes this fiasco in the twinkling light of a Pottery Barn catalog, and ultimately, it's got about as much depth. D

Posted Jan 12, 2001

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