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The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)
The Movie:
Where You Can Stream It: Pluto TV
The Pitch: It’s a well known fact that Martin Scorsese, the most vocal hater of Marvel Studios films, only makes gangster movies and has never once expanded his cinematic vocabulary beyond those parameters (noting the sarcasm here in the parenthesis, just in case). But
The Age of Innocence, based on Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel and set in 1870s New York City, is the most unconventional gangster film of his entire filmography. Not a single gun is fired, there are no scenes featuring heavy drug use or wanton sexual exploits, and Joe Pesci is nowhere to be found. Instead, this story is about a simmering, would-be love affair between members of upper-class society.