Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle (1987)

6.5/10 49 min Fantasy TV Movie History

Overview

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.

Cast

Harry Dean Stanton

Rip Van Winkle

Talia Shire

Wilma Van Winkle

Ed Begley Jr.

Brom Dutcher

Roy Dotrice

Peter Vanderdonk

Mark Blankfield

Derrick Van Bummel

Albert Hague

Nicholas Vedder

Tim Conway

Mayoral Candidate

Hunter Carson

Little Rip

Chris Penn

Will Tussenbrook

Glenn Withrow

Harpoon Crew Member

Sofia Coppola

A Child

John P. Ryan

Hendrick Hudson / Narrator (voice)

Shelley Duvall

Self - Host (uncredited)

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