Fresh
The performances are impeccable, but honours go to Thompson, who manages to make Margaret's saintliness actually seem seductive.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Howards End
Based on the Novel by E.M. Forster
1992 · 2h 22m · PG
Drama, Romance
Directed by
James Ivory
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Howards End
Overview
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
Director and cast
- James Ivory Director
- Emma Thompson as Margaret Schlegel
- Helena Bonham Carter as Helen Schlegel
- Anthony Hopkins as Henry J. Wilcox
- Samuel West as Leonard Bast
- Vanessa Redgrave as Ruth Wilcox
- Adrian Ross Magenty as Tibby Schlegel
- Prunella Scales as Aunt Juley
- James Wilby as Charles Wilcox
- Joseph Bennett as Paul Wilcox
- Jo Kendall as Annie
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It's time for legislation decreeing that no one be allowed to make a screen adaptation of a novel of any quality whatsoever if Ismail Merchant, James Ivory and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala are available, and if they elect to do the job.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
The film serves Forster by taking to heart the book's epigraph: "Only connect."
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh
Merchant and Ivory have regathered many of the cast and crew from their earlier films to work on this reproduction to exquisite effect.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Fresh
A film seething with anger, passion, greed and emotional violence. That the characters are generally well-behaved says less about their manners than their inhibitions.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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