Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Beth Hurt, Stuart Wilson, Todd Field, Jonathan Pryce, Winona Ryder, Geraldine Chaplin

Based on the novel by Edith Wharton. "Sumptuous" doesn't do this film justice. Scorsese's adaptation of Wharton's novel about 1870s high society and its discontents is so aesthetically stuffed, it's positively gushing, and that goes for the food, too, as the banquets brim with historically accurate cuisine. But it's the rigid social norms reflected in the precisely choreographed table manners that counter the seemingly joyous abundance and epitomize this story of agonized restraint.