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Overview

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Director:

James Ivory

Writers:

E.M. Forster (from the novel by)
Kit Hesketh-Harvey (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

18 September 1987 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama | Romance more

Plot:

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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Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination more

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(6 articles)

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a closer look of gay life 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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Additional Details

Runtime:

140 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Just before filming the nude bed scene in the hotel, the bed that Rupert Graves and James Wilby were in collapsed. more

Goofs:

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: Tomorrow's Thursday, Friday is packing, Saturday Southampton, so it's good-bye, Old England!
Maurice Hall: You mean that you and I shan't meet again after now?
Alec Scudder: That's right, you've got it quite correct.
Maurice Hall: Stay with me.
Alec Scudder: Stay? And miss my boat? You daft? What a bloody rubbish! Ordering about again you would.
Maurice Hall: It's a chance in a thousand we met. You know it. Why don't you stay?
Alec Scudder: Stay with you? How? And where? With your Ma? Oh yeah. What would she say if she saw me? All rough and ugly the way I am. And how would you run your job, I'd like to know?
Maurice Hall: I have to chuck it.
Alec Scudder: Your job in the city? What gives you money and position? You talk like a man who's never had to earn his living.
Maurice Hall: You can do anything. Once you know what it is. We can live without money, without people. We can live without position. We're not fools. We're both strong. There'll be some place we can go.
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Movie Connections:

Referenced in Clapham Junction (2007) (TV) more

Soundtrack:

Miserere Psalm 51 more


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44 out of 50 people found the following comment useful.
a closer look of gay life, 31 January 2006
10/10
Author: Rita Chang from Shanghai, China

Before I watch Maurice, I almost had no idea of the life of gays. I used to hold the notion that homosexuality was unacceptable and disgusting, which was under the influence of some so-called orthodox thinking. As the time goes by, I gradually realized that you can't make a judgment before truly knowing something about it. Truth is not told by "everybody" but explored and medicated by yourself. And the movie "Maurice" has provided me with a good chance to have a better look at the true life of gays, to perceive their pure and pristine affections towards the same sex, to feel their struggle and desperation under public prejudice and pressure. Though my life is a far cry from that of Maurice and Clive portrayed in the movie, it seems that I can understand them perfectly and are quite empathetic with them. I think that is because what is expressed in the movie is undoubtedly part of human nature, which can strike a chord in the depth of every human being's heart. For that reason, one line in the movie stroke me deeply. When Maurice's psychological doctor advised him to emigrate to countries such as France and Italy where homosexuality was no longer criminal, he said:" England has always been disinclined to accept human nature."

A great movie!

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