A ROOM WITH A VIEW

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• Release Year: 1986
• Genre: Drama; Romance
• Plot: Merchant Ivory Productions, led by director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, became a household name with A Room with a View, the first of their extraordinary adaptations of E. M. Forster novels. A cherubic nineteen-year-old Helena Bonham Carter plays Lucy Honeychurch, a young, independent- minded, upper-class Edwardian woman who is trying to sort out her burgeoning romantic feelings, divided between an enigmatic free spirit (Julian Sands) she meets on vacation in Florence and the priggish bookworm (Daniel Day-Lewis) to whom she becomes engaged back in the more corseted Surrey. Funny, sexy, and sophisticated, this gargantuan art-house hit features a sublime supporting cast–including Simon Callow, Judi Dench, Denholm Elliott, and Maggie Smith–and remains a touchstone of intelligent romantic cinema.
• Cast: Rupert Graves; Mia Fothergill; Maria Britneva; Patricia Lawrence; Julian Sands; Elizabeth Marangoni; Brigid Erin Bates; Joan Henley; Daniel Day-Lewis; Richard Robbins; Fabia Drake; Rosemary Leach; Luigi Di Fiore; James Wilby; Freddy Korner; Stefano Serboli; Royston Munt; Maggie Smith; Denholm Elliott; Luca Rossi; Phillida Sewell; Mirio Guidelli; Patrick Godfrey; Matyelok Gibbs; Amanda Walker; Judi Dench; Margaret Ward; Peter Cellier; Isabella Celani; Kitty Aldridge; Simon Callow; Helena Bonham Carter; Peter Munt; James Ivory; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; E.M. Forster; Ismail Merchant; Tony Pierce-Roberts; Humphrey Dixon
• Director: James Ivory
• Runtime: 1:57
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, Goldcrest
• Media Format: Movie