Based on an Edith Wharton Pulitzer winning novel, "The Age of Innocence" explores illicit romantic desire thwarted by the rigid social strictures of 1870 New York society. Daniel Day-Lewis is superb as Newland whose ordered life is disrupted by the provocative Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer) cousin of his fiancé. Scorsese directs. Awards for Music and Costumes.
