A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.
- Director
- Writers
- E.M. Forster(novel)
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala(screenplay)
- Stars
- Director
- Writers
- E.M. Forster(novel)
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala(screenplay)
- Stars
- Won 3 Oscars
- 32 wins & 49 nominations total
- Director
- Writers
- E.M. Forster(novel)
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala(screenplay)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaDame Emma Thompson received a total of thirteen nominations for her role in this movie. She won in all of those events, which includes an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA as Best Actress.
- GoofsWhen 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 an aircraft contrail. There were no aircraft capable of leaving high-altitude contrails in the time period this movie is set in.
- Quotes
Henry Wilcox: Don't take a sentimental attitude toward the poor.
[...]
Henry Wilcox: The poor are the poor. One is sorry for them, but there it is.
Featured review
A Journey Everyone Should Take
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.
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Gia Tài
- Filming locations
- Fortnum & Mason's, Piccadilly, Mayfair, Westminster, Greater London, England, UK(where Ruth and Margaret do their Christmas shopping)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $26,126,837
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $52,568
- Mar 15, 1992
- Gross worldwide
- $26,341,736
- Runtime2 hours 22 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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