An English businessman (Anthony Hopkins) thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to a impoverished woman... (Learn more)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter (View All)
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Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter
One of the best Ismail Merchant/James Ivory films, this adaptation of E. M. Forster's classic 1910 novel shows in careful detail the injuriously rigid British class consciousness of the early 20th century. The film's catalyst is "poor relation" Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), who inherits part of the estate of Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave), an upper-class woman whom she had befriended. The film's principal characters are divided by caste: aristocratic industrial Henry Wilcox (Anthony Hopkins); middle-echelon Margaret and her sister Helen (Helena Bonham Carter); and working-class clerk Leonard Bast (Sam West) and his wife (Nicola Duffett). The personal and social conflicts among these characters ultimately result in tragedy for Bast and disgrace for Wilcox, but the film's wider theme remains the need, in the words of the novel's famous epigram, to "only connect" with other people, despite boundaries of gender, class, or petty grievance. Filmed on a proudly modest budget, Howards End offers sets, spectacles, and costumes as lavish as in any historical epic. Nominated for 9 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, the film took home awards for Thompson as Best Actress, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's adapted screenplay, and Luciana Arrighi's art direction. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
3/13/92
MPAA Rating
Rated PG
Running Time
142 mins.
Locations
- Dartmouth, England, United Kingdom
- Dorset, England, United Kingdom
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Oxford, England, United Kingdom
- South Devon, England, United Kingdom
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$22,859,324
Awards
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 1991 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Film award at the 1992 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Winner of the Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama award at the 1992 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1992 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 1992 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 1992 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Art Direction award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 1992 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Nominated for a Editing Award award at the 1992 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Costume Design award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1992 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1992 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 1992 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 1992 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Special 45th Anniversary Prize award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 1992 American Society of Cinematographers [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Costume Design award at the 1993 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1993 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1992 Directors Guild of America [Festival/A Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Score award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actress award at the 1992 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture - Drama award at the 1992 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the 1992 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a David Lean Award award at the 1992 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Production Design award at the 1992 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award at the 1992 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 1992 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
Distributor
- Orion Classics
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
