Rip Van Winkle Rip Van Winkle "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. Irving wrote it while living in Birmingham, England, as part of the collection "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." The story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, but Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." "Rip Van Winkle" is set
A Bride for Rip Van Winkle A Bride for Rip Van Winkle After the film had its world premiere in Hong Kong on March 8, 2016, "A Bride for Rip Van Winkle" was released in Taiwan on March 11, 2016 and in Hong Kong on March 17, 2016, ahead of its release in Japan on March 26, 2016. The film was released in the United States on November 10, 2017 "A Bride for Rip Van Winkle" was an official selection of numerous international film festivals: Two versions of "A Bride for Rip Van Winkle" were available for theatrical release, a 179-minute "director's cut" and a 119-minute