After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.
- Director
- Writers
- E.M. Forster(from the novel by)
- Kit Hesketh-Harvey(screenplay)
- James Ivory(screenplay)
- Stars
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- Director
- Writers
- E.M. Forster(from the novel by)
- Kit Hesketh-Harvey(screenplay)
- James Ivory(screenplay)
- Stars
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 4 wins & 3 nominations total
- Director
- Writers
- E.M. Forster(from the novel by)
- Kit Hesketh-Harvey(screenplay)
- James Ivory(screenplay)
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- TriviaIn the DVD extras, Hugh Grant says that because he and James Wilby already knew each other from appearing in Privileged (1982) together, they were able to practice their scenes together at Grant's house the night before Wilby's audition. Grant says that he remembers it "being a surprise to my banker brother when he came home and found me kissing James Wilby in the front room."
- GoofsDuring one of the earlier scenes while Maurice and others are reading/translating with a professor/dean, Maurice is seen clearly wearing a wristwatch. While wristwatches did exist at the time they were rare, and were considered working class so would not have been worn by a gentleman. The wristwatch would not become common until the first world war, when they were given to soldiers to allow them to see the time while both hands were engaged.
- Quotes
Maurice Hall: I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
- Alternate versionsSome NTSC versions are scanned at 25fps and the running time is short and seems edited but the movie is intact.
- SoundtracksMiserere Psalm 51
Written by Gregorio Allegri
Sung by The Choir of Kings College Cambridge
Courtesy of The Decca Record Company LTD.
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The real life story behind E.M. Forster's book
Many viewers and critics have criticised the happy ending of this film as being 'unrealistic' or even 'impossible'. After all an upper class and working class man could never live as a couple in Edwardian England? In fact E.M. Forster's inspiration for writing the book Maurice was a real gay couple, one upper class and the other working class, who lived together openly in England for about 35 years until 1928. They are buried in the same grave.
Edward Carpenter was a close friend of E.M.Forster, who named Carpenter's working class gay partner, George Merrill, as the inspiration for his novel Maurice. He had visited Carpenter and Merrill at Millthorpe in Derbyshire on several occasions: once, in 1913, Merrill "touched my backside - gently and just above the buttocks. I believe he touched most people's. The sensation was unusual and I still remember it, as I remember the position of a long vanished tooth. He made a profound impression on me and touched a creative spring" That was the origin for the writing of Maurice.
Edward Carpenter was a close friend of E.M.Forster, who named Carpenter's working class gay partner, George Merrill, as the inspiration for his novel Maurice. He had visited Carpenter and Merrill at Millthorpe in Derbyshire on several occasions: once, in 1913, Merrill "touched my backside - gently and just above the buttocks. I believe he touched most people's. The sensation was unusual and I still remember it, as I remember the position of a long vanished tooth. He made a profound impression on me and touched a creative spring" That was the origin for the writing of Maurice.
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- Also known as
- 墨利斯的情人
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- Budget
- £1,577,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,484,230
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $49,278
- Sep 20, 1987
- Gross worldwide
- $2,642,567
- Runtime2 hours 20 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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