Movie · 1987
Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle
Released 23 March 1987 49 min Fantasy / TV Movie / History More from 1987 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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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How old were they?
Albert Hague
as Nicholas Vedder
Roy Dotrice
as Peter Vanderdonk
Harry Dean Stanton
as Rip Van Winkle
Tim Conway
as Mayoral Candidate
John P. Ryan
as Hendrick Hudson / Narrator (voice)
Talia Shire
as Wilma Van Winkle
Ed Begley Jr.
as Brom Dutcher
Shelley Duvall
as Self - Host (uncredited)
Mark Blankfield
as Derrick Van Bummel
Glenn Withrow
as Harpoon Crew Member
Chris Penn
as Will Tussenbrook
Sofia Coppola
as A Child
Hunter Carson
as Little Rip
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The numbers
55years between the oldest and youngest billed
66Albert Hague — oldest on the call sheet
11Hunter Carson — youngest billed
40average age of the credited cast