Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle poster

Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle poster

Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle

1987 49m 6.4Movie

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Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Washington Irving’s classic tale about Rip Van Winkle, a carefree villager who wanders into New York’s Catskill Mountains, drinks with mysterious strangers, and falls into a deep sleep—awakening twenty years later to find the world around him transformed.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Director

Mark Curtiss

Writer

Rod Ash

Writer

Top Cast

Harry Dean Stanton

Harry Dean Stanton

Rip Van Winkle

Talia Shire

Talia Shire

Wilma Van Winkle

Ed Begley Jr.

Ed Begley Jr.

Brom Dutcher

Roy Dotrice

Roy Dotrice

Peter Vanderdonk

Mark Blankfield

Mark Blankfield

Derrick Van Bummel

Albert Hague

Albert Hague

Nicholas Vedder

Tim Conway

Tim Conway

Mayoral Candidate

Hunter Carson

Hunter Carson

Little Rip

Chris Penn

Chris Penn

Will Tussenbrook

Glenn Withrow

Glenn Withrow

Harpoon Crew Member

Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola

A Child

John P. Ryan

John P. Ryan

Hendrick Hudson / Narrator (voice)

Shelley Duvall

Shelley Duvall

Self - Host (uncredited)