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Director:
Writers:
E.M. Forster (from the novel by)
Kit Hesketh-Harvey (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
18 September 1987 (USA) more
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Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society... more | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination more
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Touching Love Story more (56 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
James Wilby ... Maurice Hall

Hugh Grant ... Clive Durham
Rupert Graves ... Alec Scudder
Denholm Elliott ... Doctor Barry
Simon Callow ... Mr. Ducie
Billie Whitelaw ... Mrs. Hall
Barry Foster ... Dean Cornwallis
Judy Parfitt ... Mrs. Durham
Phoebe Nicholls ... Anne Durham
Patrick Godfrey ... Simcox
Mark Tandy ... Risley

Ben Kingsley ... Lasker-Jones
Kitty Aldridge ... Kitty Hall

Helena Michell ... Ada Hall
Catherine Rabett ... Pippa Durham
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Runtime:
140 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Just before filming the nude bed scene in the hotel, the bed that Rupert Graves and James Wilby were in collapsed. more
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Factual errors: Maurice Hall and Clive Durham are shown attending a concert at the Wigmore Hall in London in 1911. This renowned concert venue was originally called Bechstein Hall, having been built by the famous German piano firm, and was not renamed Wigmore Hall until after the First World War, when anti-German feeling had caused the owners to sell up and Westminster Council renamed the venue. more
Quotes:
Alec Scudder: Stop with me. Sleep the night with me.
Maurice Hall: I can't. I've got an engagement. Full business dinner. It's my job. Meet me another evening instead.
Alec Scudder: I can't come to London again. My father and Mr. Borenius will be passing remarks.
Maurice Hall: What does it matter if they do?
Alec Scudder: What does your engagement matter?
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Referenced in Clapham Junction (2007) (TV) more
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Miserere Psalm 51 more

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Touching Love Story, 18 October 2003
7/10
Author: Mariannah from Vienna, Austria

This film, from the E.M. Forster novel, was Merchant-Ivory's follow up to their 1986 hit "A Room with a View", and bears the typical Merchant-Ivory slow pace and splendid period detail. Essentially, its a love story about Maurice (James Wilby), who is struggling with his homosexuality. He harbours a secret crush for his university friend (played by Hugh Grant), but in this era (early 1900's), when homosexuality was a criminal offense, the pair must suppress their feelings. The story, although quite simple, is very moving, and the ending is truly beautiful. The love scenes, between Wilby and Rupert Graves (playing the beautiful, working-class Scudder)are tasteful yet stirringly erotic. The actors are afforded a literate script by Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James Ivory, and as such the performances are uniformly excellent. Wilby in particular makes his character heartbreakingly real.

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