Suspended animation in fiction which is indistinguishable from death. In American fiction, the first story to deal with suspended animation is the tale of Rip Van Winkle, a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819 as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. In the story, a British subject in the American colonies wanders into the Catskill Mountains in the years before the American Revolutionary War, and finds a group of fairies, whose moonshine he drinks. He then falls asleep for 20 years, and returns to his village in what is now the United States, finding his home town
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