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The Wings of the Dove (1997)
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Ratings: 7.0/10 from 5,939 users
Metascore:
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Reviews: 60 user | 69 critic | 18 from Metacritic.com An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without. Director:Iain Softley |
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Shirley Chantrell | ... |
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Diana Kent | ... |
Merton's Party Companion
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Rachele Crisafulli | ... |
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Kate Croy's mother was born to wealth and privilege, but she threw it all away to marry Kate's father, a penniless opium addict who admits to having stolen from his wife. After her mother's death, Kate is offered an opportunity to return to the life her mother gave up. There is a condition, however: Kate must sever all of her old ties, not only to her father, but also to her lover, the muck-raking journalist Merton Densher, whom she has promised marriage. Kate reluctantly agrees to this, and in the meantime becomes friendly with "the world's richest orphan," Millie Theale, an American making the Grand Tour. Desperate to see Kate, Merton crashes a party that she and Millie are attending, and Millie is attracted to him. When Kate learns that Millie is dying, she comes up with a plan to have her cake and eat it too...but all does not go as planned. Written by RK
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A couple with everything but money. An heiress with everything but love. A temptation no one could resist.Parents Guide:
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EnglishRelease Date:
(USA) See more »Also Known As:
Las alas de la paloma See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$183,610 (USA) (9 November 1997) (7 Screens)Gross:
$13,718,385 (USA) (12 April 1998)Company Credits
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2.35 : 1
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The paintings Millie sees in the gallery with Merton and Kate are Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss" (1907), and Klimt's "Danae" (1907). See more »Goofs
Errors in geography: The tile pattern on the Underground stations the train passes through at the beginning of the film are identical in pattern and color for each station. Each station on the Piccadilly line had its own tile pattern and color scheme so that the illiterate could still recognize their station without needing to read the station name. See more »
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