HOWARDS END [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1992
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Named Best Picture of the Year and nominated for nine 1992 Academy Awards (including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress), Howards End is a dazzling adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic novel of Edwardian England. The film tells the story of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret (Thompson) and Helen (Bonham Carter); of a rich businessman, Henry Wilcox (Hopkins), and his frail wife, Ruth (Redgrave), and their children; and of an unhappily married bank clerk, Leonard Bast (West), whom the Schlegel sisters befriend. These three families are in complete contrast to each other.; ; Margaret and Helen are idealistic, independent and highly educated. The Wilcoxes are uncultured and utterly conventional. Leonard Best is poor and underprivileged, but with intellectual aspirations. Unexpectedly, when Mrs. Wilcox dies, Mr. Wilcox proposes to and is accepted by Margaret Schlegel. Her sister Helen is shattered by this marriage, and in reaction to it, turns to Leonard Best. The story has become a tangle of opposites, and through the agency of Mr. Wilcox' son Charles (Wilby), it turns to tragedy. But in the end, thanks to the moral strength of Margaret, who believes that opposites can meet, that different kinds of people can connect, there is a resolution that is almost a triumph.
• 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
• Director: James Ivory
• Runtime: 2:23
• Company: Sony Pictures Classics
• Media Format: Movie