Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle(1987)

movie - first aired/released 1987-03-23 - 49 min - audience 6.4

Fantasy, TV Movie, History

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

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.