Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle
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Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Washington Irving’s classic tale about Rip Van Winkle, a carefree villager who wanders into New York’s Catskill Mountains, drinks with mysterious strangers, and falls into a deep sleep—awakening twenty years later to find the world around him transformed.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1987-03-23
Runtime: 49 mins
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Mark Curtiss, Rod Ash
Spoken language: English
Genres: Fantasy, TV Movie, History
Original title: Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle
Production Companies: Platypus Productions, Gaylord Productions
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Harry Dean Stanton
Talia Shire
Ed Begley Jr.
Roy Dotrice
Mark Blankfield
Albert Hague
Tim Conway
Hunter Carson
Chris Penn
Glenn Withrow
Sofia Coppola
John P. Ryan
Shelley Duvall
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