Washington Square is a 1997 American drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland. The screenplay by Carol Doyle is based on the 1880 novel of the same name by Henry James, which was filmed as The Heiress in 1949. A prologue introduces us to Dr. Austin Sloper , a New York City doctor and resident of a large house on Washington Square whose wife dies in childbirth, leaving a daughter, Catherine , to be raised by her father. As a child, Catherine is overweight, clumsy, and untalented; however, she is also a sweet, affectionate child. She adores her father and tries hard to please him, but he... considers her a disappointment and treats her with ironic condescension. His thoughts are still much occupied with his beloved wife and with a promising son who died before Catherine was born, and he privately – but bitterly – resents his only surviving child for causing his wife's death. Sloper invites Catherine's widowed aunt, the incurably foolish Lavinia Penniman , to live at Washington Square as a chaperone for Catherine.
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| Release date: | October 17, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Agnieszka Holland |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 115 Minutes |
| Producer: | Julie Bergman Sender, Roger Birnbaum |
| Editor: | David Siegel |
| Music by: | Jan A. P. Kaczmarek |
| Cinematography: | Jerzy Zielinski |
| Screenplay by: | Carol Doyle |
| Estimated budget: | $15,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Washington Square |