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Howards End (1993)
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
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A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
Rating:PG
Genre:Drama, Romance
Written By:Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
In Theaters:2/26/1993
Box Office:$26,126,837
Runtime:142 minutes
Studio:Merchant Ivory Productions, Film Four International, Nippon Film Development and Finance
Cast
James Ivory
Director
Emma Thompson
Margaret Schlegel
Helena Bonham Carter
Helen Schlegel
Anthony Hopkins
Henry J. Wilcox
Samuel West
Leonard Bast
Vanessa Redgrave
Ruth Wilcox
Adrian Ross Magenty
Tibby Schlegel
Prunella Scales
Aunt Juley
James Wilby
Charles Wilcox
Joseph Bennett
Paul Wilcox
Jo Kendall
Annie
Jemma Redgrave
Evie Wilcox
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