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Overview

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Director:
James Ivory
Writers:
E.M. Forster (novel)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay)
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Release Date:
13 March 1992 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Plot:
A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 3 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 27 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(15 articles)
Oscar and The Jesus Year
 (From FilmExperience. 25 February 2009, 9:00 AM, PST)

Thompson Moves Oscars From Restroom
 (From WENN. 21 January 2009, 4:04 AM, PST)

User Comments:
A Journey Everyone Should Take more

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Additional Details

Runtime:
140 min
Country:
UK | Japan
Language:
English | German
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)

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Trivia:
The first film to be released by Sony Pictures Classics. more
Quotes:
Margaret Schlegel: Unlike the Greek, England has no true mythology. All we have are witches and fairies. more
Movie Connections:
Spoofed in "The Critic: I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show (#2.10)" (1995) more

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29 out of 31 people found the following comment useful:-
A Journey Everyone Should Take, 23 January 1999
Author: awoolsey

The literary period piece is a difficult genre to master, requiring a difficult balancing between restraint and flowing emotion. Few films effectively achieve this as beautifully as Merchant-Ivory's astounding HOWARDS END, making it probably the best period film of the 1990's. The film juxtapositions the intellectual, emotionally unhindered Schlegel sisters against the restrained, imperious Wilcox family, and, for good measure, mixes in the differing attitudes toward class emerging early in the century. What could quite easily have been a dry study in the cultural dynamics of pre-WWI England becomes an enveloping tale, thanks in no small part to the performances by Hopkins, Emma Thompson, and Vanessa Redgrave, whose Ruth Wilcox remains enigmatic after every viewing. The emotions ringing through by film's end - not to mention its astoundingly pointed social criticism - give the film its power, a power missing even from Forster's rambling, distant novel. And this story is nestled amongst some of the most beautiful art direction, music, and cinematography to ever grace the screen. The haunting journey to HOWARDS END is one few other recent films can rival.

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