outside of scorsese goodfellas and this be simply the best movie of the 1990 . any serious film student who really want to learn how to make a film need to watch scorsese film . he be originally give this novel in 1980 by a former time critic who tell him it guilt and conscience the definitive scorsese . this movie be the exact kind of romantic and class driven drama that titanic wish it be . if there be any actor alive who can possibly compare to the magnificent repression and passion combine in one that laurence olivier use to show u and it be daniel day lewis . here he come fully into his own and bring the character of newland archer alive . this be also where winona ryder finally come into her own a an actress . anyone who love movie about the class and about romance and about guilt and or simply anyone who love movie should be head to a video store to rent this one right away .