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Release Date: 1997

Cast: Arthur Laupus, Sara Constance Marshall, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Jaeck, Rachel Osborne, Peter Maloney, Lauren Hulsey, Jennifer Garner, Judith Ivey, Nancy Daly, Sara Ruzicka, Albert Finney ...MORE

Cast: Arthur Laupus, Sara Constance Marshall, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Jaeck, Rachel Osborne, Peter Maloney, Lauren Hulsey, Jennifer Garner, Judith Ivey, Nancy Daly, Sara Ruzicka, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith, Betsy Brantley, Robert Stanton, Ben Chaplin, Rachel Layne Sacrey ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Period Piece, Romantic Drama, Romance Film, Film Adaptation, Drama Film

Washington Square is a 1997 American drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland. The screenplay by Carol Doyle is based on the 1880 novel of the same name by Henry James, which was filmed as The Heiress in 1949. A prologue introduces us to Dr. Austin Sloper (Albert Finney), a New York City doctor and resident of a large house on Washington Square whose wife dies in childbirth, leaving a daughter, Catherine (Jennifer Jason Leigh), to be raised by her father. As a child, Catherine is overweight, clumsy, and untalented; however, she is also a sweet, affectionate child. She adores her father and... MORE

Washington Square is a 1997 American drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland. The screenplay by Carol Doyle is based on the 1880 novel of the same name by Henry James, which was filmed as The Heiress in 1949. A prologue introduces us to Dr. Austin Sloper (Albert Finney), a New York City doctor and resident of a large house on Washington Square whose wife dies in childbirth, leaving a daughter, Catherine (Jennifer Jason Leigh), to be raised by her father. As a child, Catherine is overweight, clumsy, and untalented; however, she is also a sweet, affectionate child. She adores her father and tries hard to please him, but he considers her a disappointment and treats her with ironic condescension. His thoughts are still much occupied with his beloved wife and with a promising son who died before Catherine was born, and he privately – but bitterly – resents his only surviving child for causing his wife's death. Sloper invites Catherine's widowed aunt, the incurably foolish Lavinia Penniman (Maggie Smith), to live at Washington Square as a chaperone for Catherine. Catherine becomes a plain young woman who is painfully shy and inept in the social graces expected of someone of her class, LESS