As they talk, she takes his watch from him, saying she'll return it when he forgets she has it. The next day, they walk through the fall foliage in Central Park, and Charlotte recites lines from the poem 'God's World'. She acknowledges this, revealing she is dying from a heart condition. The next morning, while having breakfast on his terrace, Will explains that their relationship has no future. There they get to know each other and later end up back at his apartment where they have sex. When she delivers the hat to his apartment a few days later, he invites her to accompany him to the formal benefit under the guise that he had been stood up. The next day, Will calls and asks Charlotte to make a hat for his date for an upcoming benefit dinner. Will admires the hats that she made for her group of celebratory friends, and learns that Charlotte is the daughter of Katy, one of his former girlfriends, who died in an automobile accident shortly after Charlotte's birth. Her grandmother ( Elaine Stritch), who knows him well, introduces them. Charlotte Fielding ( Winona Ryder), a free-spirited young lady, celebrates her 22nd birthday in his upscale restaurant, and he immediately notices her.

Will Keane ( Richard Gere) is a successful, late-middle-aged (he insists he is 48 Charlotte says he is 49 actor Gere was actually 50 during filming) restaurateur, womanizer and recently featured in a New York magazine cover story. ( July 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This section's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.

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