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The Age of Innocence

In a world of tradition. In an age of innocence. They dared to break the rules.

1993 · 2h 19m · PG Drama, Romance
Directed by Martin Scorsese

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In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

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All reviews
84%
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Rotten

I don't know any of those [prior] versions, and I wonder how (which means I doubt that) they avoided the snare that Wharton unwittingly set for her adapters, the snare that, for all his gifts, caught Scorsese.

Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Rotten

Manages to be both personal and true to its source, though it never quite comes together.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

An extraordinarily sumptuous piece of filmmaking.

Todd McCarthy, Variety
Fresh

Spurning Masterpiece Theatre twittiness, Scorsese cuts to the primal passions of Wharton's tale.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh

Mr. Scorsese has made a big, intelligent movie that functions as if it were a window on a world he had just discovered, and about which he can't wait to spread the news.

Vincent Canby, New York Times

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