HOWARDS END [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1992
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: One of Merchant Ivory's undisputed masterpieces, this adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic novel won multiple prizes including three Academy Awards®, with Emma Thompson picking up Best Actress. A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel (Thompson), who, along with her sister Helen (Helena Bonham Carter), becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Ruth (Vanessa Redgrave), and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast (Samuel West) and his mistress Jackie (Nicola Duffett). The interwoven fates and misfortunes of these three families and the diverging trajectories of the two sisters' lives are connected to the ownership of Howards End, the dying Ruth's beloved country home. A compelling, brilliantly acted study of one woman's struggle to mantain her ideals and integrity in the face of Edwardian society's moribund conformist values. Cohen Film Collection is proud to present a gorgeous new 4K restoration from the original negative, overseen and approved by director James Ivory and cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts.
• Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Joseph Bennett, Emma Thompson, Prunella Scales, Adrian Ross Magenty, Jo Kendall, Anthony Hopkins, James Wilby, Jemma Redgrave, Ian Latimer, Samuel West, Mary Nash, Siegbert Prawer, Susie Lindeman, Nicola Duffett, Mark Tandy, Andrew St. Clair, Anne Lambton, Emma Godfrey, Duncan Brown, Iain Kelly, Atalanta White, Gerald Paris, Allie Byrne, Sally Geoghegan, Paula Stockbridge, Bridget Duvall, Lucy Freeman, Harriet Stewart, Tina Leslie, Mark Payton, David Delaney, Mary McWilliams, Barbara Hicks, Rodney Rymell, Luke Parry, Antony Gilding, Peter Cellier, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Patricia Lawrence, Margery Mason, Jim Bowden, Alan James, Jocelyn Cobb, Peter Darling, Terence Sach, Brian Lipson, Barr Heckstall-Smith, Simon Callow, Claire Driver, Robin Jones, James Ivory, E.M. Forster, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Ismail Merchant, Tony Pierce-Roberts, Andrew Marcus, Richard Robbins, Campbell Askew, John Ralph
• Director: James Ivory
• Runtime: 2:22
• Company: Cohen Media Group, Merchant Ivory Productions, Entertainment One
• Media Format: Movie