Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle (1987)
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.
- Released
- 1987-03-23
- Genres
- Fantasy, TV Movie, History
- Runtime
- 49 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Francis Ford Coppola
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 from 7 votes
Cast
- Harry Dean Stanton as Rip Van Winkle
- Talia Shire as Wilma Van Winkle
- Ed Begley Jr. as Brom Dutcher
- Roy Dotrice as Peter Vanderdonk
- Mark Blankfield as Derrick Van Bummel
- Albert Hague as Nicholas Vedder
- Tim Conway as Mayoral Candidate
- Hunter Carson as Little Rip
- Chris Penn as Will Tussenbrook
- Glenn Withrow as Harpoon Crew Member
- Sofia Coppola as A Child
- John P. Ryan as Hendrick Hudson / Narrator (voice)