#50. The Age of Innocence (1993)
April 3, 2021
– Director: Martin Scorsese
– Stacker score: 88.5
– Metascore: 90
– IMDb user rating: 7.2
– Runtime: 139 minutes
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Winona Ryder, “The Age of Innocence” is a period drama set in 19th-century New York. The plot focuses on a man who is meant to marry one woman but falls in love with her cousin, an outcast among New York’s high society. The film is based on Edith Wharton’s novel of the same name for which she was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for literature.