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| | Variety.com - Reviews - Autumn in New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Desperately eager to register as a love affair in the mold of Hollywood's classics, Joan Chen's tediously sappy romantic mellermeller is a kind of modern-day "Love Story," with a "new" twist: The casting of Richard GereRichard Gere as a suave lover old enough to be Winona RyderWinona Ryder's father. |
 | | Protagonists of both pics are young, attractive and ailing women (Minnie Driver in the first), living with their grandparents (paternal in Hunt's pic, maternal in new one) who, despite their better judgment, fall head over heels in love. |
 | | Rather peculiarly, "Autumn in New York" also fails to exploit its other obvious locale, a modish restaurant: There are no enticing food-preparation acts, and sequences in the kitchen are poorly directed. |
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