HOWARDS END - THE MERCHANT IVORY COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1992
• Genre: Drama, Foreign, Romance
• Plot: Margaret and Helen Schlegel (Oscar winner Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter) are sisters from a well-educated European family: intelligent, free-spirited, cultured, and highly emancipated by the standards of the time. A series of events brings them into a relationship with the Wilcox family: wealthy, conservative, conventional, and very English, headed by the prosperous Henry (Anthony Hopkins) and his priggish son, Charles (James Wilby).; ; Both families also come into contact with Leonard Bast (Samuel West) and his wife, a couple near the lowest tier of the rigid class system. Leonard's desire for cultural and intellectual status attracts the attention of Helen, who must come to terms with her unexpected feelings toward him. At the same time, Margaret must reconcile her independent spirit with her desire for companionship and a comfortable place in Edwardian society; her moral strength is eventually able to resolve the tangle of opposites. First published in 1910, E.M Forester's Howard's End remains one of the most important English novels of the twentieth century, and Merchant Ivory Productions tour-de-force adaptation was one of the most critically acclaimed films of the 1990s, earning three Academy Awards and nine nominations, as well as being named Best Picture of 1992 by both the National Board of Review and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
• 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
• Director: James Ivory
• Runtime: 2:22
• Company: Merchant Ivory Productions, Home Vision Entertainment, Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie