4.3-> Filmography p3 (Winona Ryder)
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This article is from the Winona Ryder FAQ, by C. Scott Duprey duprey@panix.com with numerous contributions by others.
4.3-> Filmography p3 (Winona Ryder)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
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Starring:
Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Alan Arkin, Anthony Michael Hall
and
Vincent Price
Written by Caroline Thompson
based on a story by Tim Burton
Directed by Burton
MPAA Rating: PG-13, UK Rating: PG; Running time: 100 Minutes
Edward (Depp) is created by a lonely inventor (Price), who dies before
giving him human hands, leaving him with shears for fingers. Found by
a kindly Avon lady (Wiest) who takes him in, Edward tries to fit into
normal society. Just when Edward finds his niche, things fall apart
as he falls in love with the Avon lady's daughter, Kim (Ryder), and
incurs the wrath of Kim's jealous boyfriend, Jim (Hall). Depp
received a Golden Globe Nomination for his performance as Edward.
Mermaids (1990)
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Starring:
Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Michael Schoeffling, and Christina Ricci
Written by June Roberts
based on the novel by Patty Dann
Directed by Richard Benjamin
MPAA Rating: PG-13, UK Rating: 15; Running time: 111 Minutes
Charlotte Flax (Ryder) is having a hard time growing up. Between her
ultimate embarrassment of a mother (Cher), her confusion concerning
her sexual awakening, her attraction towards the monastery's grounds
keeper, Joe (Schoeffling), and the fact that her family moves whenever
her mother breaks up with a boyfriend, Charlotte just can't seem to
find her place anywhere. Ryder received a Golden Globe Nomination for
Best Supporting Actress.
Night on Earth (1991)
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Starring:
Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Beatrice Dalle, Roberto Benigni, Matti
Pellonpaa
Written & Directed by Jim Jarmusch
MPAA Rating: R; Running time: 125 Minutes
Anthology chronicling the experiences of five taxi drivers from all
over the world: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, Helsinki. In her
vignette, Ryder plays Corky, a cab driver whose fare wants to make her
a star, but that would ruin Corky's plans.
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
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Starring:
Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves
Written by Jim Hart
based on the novel by Bram Stoker
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
MPAA Rating: R, UK Rating: 18, German Rating: 16, Finland Rating: K-16;
Running time: 122 Minutes
Retelling of the classic story with Oldman as the Count; Ryder as
Mina, his eternal love; Hopkins as Van Helsing; and Reeves as Mina's
fiancee, Jonathan Harker. Winner of the Academy Award for Best
Costume Design; nominated for Best Production Design.
The Age of Innocence (1993)
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Starring:
Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
Written by Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese
based on the novel by Edith Wharton
Directed by Scorsese
MPAA Rating: PG, UK Rating: U; Running time: 139 Minutes
In the high society of 1870s New York, Newland Archer (Day-Lewis) is
engaged to be married to the beautiful but (apparently) empty-headed
May Welland (Ryder). When Archer meets May's cousin, the Countess
Ellen Olenska (Pfeiffer), he is immediately smitten by her
unconventional ways. Archer desperately wants to be with Ellen, but
doing so will break every unwritten law regarding society and
everyone's place in it that he and the rest of his circle follow. Can
Archer give up everything he has for the only person he truly wants?
The Age of Innocence received Golden Globe nominations for Best Drama;
Best Director (Scorsese); Best Actress (Pfeiffer); Ryder won a Golden
Globe for Best Supporting Actress (Drama). The film also received the
following Academy Award nominations: Best Supporting Actress (Ryder);
Best Original Score (Elmer Bernstein); Best Screenplay Adapted from
Material Previously Published in Another Form (Cocks & Scorsese); Best
Production Design (Dante Ferretti).
Gabriella Pescucci received the film's sole Oscar, for Best Costume
Design.
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