Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle

Fantasy, TV Movie, History

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Francis Ford Coppola

Status Released

Release Date 1987-03-23

Storyline

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.