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13 March 1992 (USA) morePlot:
A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Won 3 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 27 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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A Journey Everyone Should Take more (71 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Vanessa Redgrave | ... | Ruth Wilcox | |
| Helena Bonham Carter | ... | Helen Schlegel | |
| Joseph Bennett | ... | Paul Wilcox | |
| Emma Thompson | ... | Margaret J. 'Meg' Schlegel | |
| Prunella Scales | ... | Aunt Juley | |
| Adrian Ross Magenty | ... | Tibby Schlegel | |
| Jo Kendall | ... | Annie | |
| Anthony Hopkins | ... | Henry J. Wilcox | |
| James Wilby | ... | Charles Wilcox | |
| Jemma Redgrave | ... | Evie Wilcox | |
| Ian Latimer | ... | Stationmaster | |
| Samuel West | ... | Leonard Bast | |
| Mary Nash | ... | Pianist | |
| Siegbert Prawer | ... | Man Asking a Question | |
| Susie Lindeman | ... | Dolly Wilcox |
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Rated PG for mild language, violence and sensuality.Parents Guide:
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140 minColor:
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2.20 : 1 moreCertification:
Iceland:L | South Korea:15 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Chile:TE | Finland:K-8 | France:U | Germany:6 | Norway:11 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG | Singapore:PG | Ireland:PGFun Stuff
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Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter appeared together again 15 years later in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), as Professor Sybil Trelawney and Bellatrix Lestrange. moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: When Charlie and Dolly Wilcox are hiding from Margaret Schlegel in the castle, the scene closes with low angle wide shot of the castle with a view of the sky behind it, revealing several aircraft contrails. There were no aircraft capable of leaving high-altitude contrails in the time period this movie is set in. moreSoundtrack:
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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.