Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 70
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 56
Although the film isn't as bad as feared (it wasn't pre-screened for reviews), it's not that good, either. Most noticable flaws are the sappy romantic cliches and lack of chemistry between Gere and Ryder.
Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 17
Although the film isn't as bad as feared (it wasn't pre-screened for reviews), it's not that good, either. Most noticable flaws are the sappy romantic cliches and lack of chemistry between Gere and Ryder.
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 32,613
An man gets an unexpected lesson in love and life from a much younger woman in this romantic drama. Will Keane (Richard Gere) is a wealthy 50-year-old restaurant tycoon who has a knack for wooing beautiful women, but is unable to commit to a lasting relationship. On day Will meets a beautiful woman in her early-20s named Charlotte Fielding (Winona Ryder); he turns on the charm in an effort to impress her, and soon the two are having an affair. But what Will thought would be a brief, casual fling
Aug 11, 2000 Wide
Nov 14, 2001
MGM
All Critics (88) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (56) | DVD (7)
Utterly banal, Joan Chen's tediously sappy romance is a kind of modern-day Love Story (a better film!) with a "twist": Richard Gere's suave lover is old enough to be Winona Ryder's father.
Sappy and melodramatic.
A workmanlike product that offers occasional, small moments of satisfaction, but, as a whole, is apt to leave audiences wondering why they should care.
[Chen] has a lovely sense of film rhythm and a sophisticated eye for luxe effects, but she fell into this vat of goo and there's no climbing out of it.
Has no shortage of howlers and telegraphs its plot twists a mile away- but this ultra-glossy weepie turns out to be something of a guilty pleasure almost because of its extreme predictability.
A banal and sappy romantic melodrama
To sit through this is to suffer the grossest sweaty-palms-on-the-glass sex scene. Funny that the film closes with an overbearing end-credits song by Jennifer Paige - a one-hit wonder who, like "Autumn," is a pop-culture footnote best left forgotten.
Tax forms have more emotional content.
Weak and unmemorable.
Were you to watch the movie's first 20 minutes, you might think you were about to see another variation on Gere's megahit 'Pretty Woman'... Once it's revealed that Charlotte is a Pretty Sick Woman, however, the film becomes dour and tedious...
Melodrama is bad enough, contrived melodrama is worse, and badly written contrived melodrama is Autumn in New York.
Just what it promises to be: a Love Story-style romance.
Pretty ordinary. I really didn't like Richard Gere's character in this at all, and when the inevitable happened at the end, I really didn't feel too sad about it either. Winona is okay, but overall it failed to move me.
January 20, 2008Super Reviewer
This movie sucked but I got to look at Winona Ryder for a couple hours. So I don't care.
December 6, 2006Super Reviewer
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