Autumn In New York (2000) **

Directed by Joan Chen. With Richard Gere, Winona Ryder and Jill Henessy. A great melodrama in the best tradition of Douglas Sirk or Irving Rapper. Unabashedly old-fashioned, the film has everything: a great romance, a dying woman, a long lost child, and a worthless man who finds redemption. Ryder gives a riveting, quirky and totally unexpected performance.