Autumn in New York

Autumn in New York is a 2000 American romantic-drama film directed by Joan Chen, starring Richard Gere, Winona Ryder and Anthony LaPaglia.

Plot
The film is about a romance between a 48-year-old restauranter & womanizer (Richard Gere) and a young 22-year-old woman (Winona Ryder) who has a terminal illness.

Cast

 * Richard Gere as Will Keane
 * Winona Ryder as Charlotte Fielding
 * Anthony LaPaglia as John Volpe
 * Elaine Stritch as Dolores "Dolly" Talbot
 * Vera Farmiga as Lisa Tyler
 * Sherry Stringfield as Sarah Volpe
 * Jill Hennessy as Lynn McCale
 * J.K. Simmons as Dr. Tom Grandy
 * Sam Trammell as Simon
 * Mary Beth Hurt as Dr. Paul Sibley
 * Kali Rocha as Shannon
 * Steven Randazzo as Alberto
 * George Spielvogel III as Netto
 * Ranjit Chowdhry as Fakir
 * Audrey Quock as Eriko
 * Tawny Cypress as Melissa
 * Daniella van Graas as Model at Bar
 * Rachel Nichols as Model at Bar
 * Liza Lapira as Charlotte's Birthday Friend

Production
"Autumn in New York" was filmed from September 13th to November 17, 1999. It was filmed in Manhattan and New York City, New York.

Box Office
"Autumn in New York" opened at #4 at the box office, grossing $10,987,006 during its opening weekend, coming in behind films such as The Replacements, Space Cowboys and Hollow Man. Domestically, it grossed $37,761,915.

The film's foreign gross was $52,964,753 and the worldwide gross was $90,726,668.

Critical Reception
"Autumn in New York" was not screened in advance for critics. Winona Ryder and Richard Gere publicly spoke out against this, saying that it damned the credibility of the film.

According to MGM, the reason that it wasn't screened for critics was because they didn't want them to spoil the surprise ending of the film.

It holds a 20% rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 70 film critic reviews.

The site's general consensus is: "Although the film isn't as bad as feared (it wasn't pre-screened for reviews), it's not that good, either. Most noticeable flaws are the sappy romantic cliches and lack of chemistry between Gere and Ryder".

On Metacritic, the film scored a 24 out of 100 rating based on 21 reviews.

Variety's Emanuel Levy gave the film a negative review, writing:

"Autumn in New York is not a bad picture, just utterly banal. Desperately eager to register as a love affair in the mold of Hollywood's classics, Joan Chen's tediously sappy romantic meller is a kind of modern-day Love Story, with a "new" twist: The casting of Richard Gere as a suave lover old enough to be Winona Ryder's father. MGM release, which went into theaters without a press screening, should enjoy a decent opening due to an aggressive marketing campaign targeted at young susceptible femmes, but tearjerker should be out of sight long before the season in which its pedestrian story is set".

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote: "It's unfortunate that the film was directed by Joan Chen, who made the shattering Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl. The gentle humanism of Chen's touch is much in evidence here, yet she can't undo the howler at the movie's center – namely, that Gere's serial dater has conveniently chosen to fall in love with the one young woman in Manhattan who won't be around in six months anyway".

TV Guide critic Maitland McDonagh called the film a "weepy, overwrought love story".

Accolades
2001 Razzie Awards
 * Worst Screen Couple: Richard Gere & Winona Ryder (nominated)