EditHoward's End (1992)

Restaureret 25-års jubilæums-version i 4K af James Ivorys storværk baseret på E.M. Forsters romanværk med Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter og Vanessa Redgrave. Filmen vandt 3 Oscars. London 1910. Et møde mellem klasser: De tre søskende Schlegel, storesøsteren Margaret, lillesøsteren Helen og broderen Tibby, lever fint og godt uden ligefrem i sus og dus. De bliver venner med den rige familie Wilcox og på dødslejet testamenterer den gamle fru Wilcox sommerhuset Howards End til Margaret, men Margaret får aldrig at høre om det, da familien negligerer hendes sidste vilje. In the early twentieth century London, the upper class Schlegel siblings, Margaret (Dame Emma Thompson), Helen (Helena Bonham Carter), and Tibby (Adrian Ross), are liberal, straight talking people who indulge themselves in philanthropy and in discussions of the arts and literature. They begin an association with the similarly upper crust Wilcox family. The Wilcoxes, husband and wife Henry (Sir Anthony Hopkins) and Ruth (Vanessa Redgrave), and their grown children, are in London temporarily from their Hilton country home, Howards End, which has long been in Ruth's family, and where Ruth was born. Most specifically, a friendship develops between Margaret and the sickly Ruth. Their friendship is despite an auspicious past association between the two families, namely a doomed romance between one of the Wilcox's sons, Paul (Joseph Bennett), and Helen, and the fact of the Wilcoxes being more conservative and pretentious in their outlook than the Schlegels. In this regard, the Wilcox children take after their father, the children who believe Margaret has ulterior motives in befriending their mother. In a similar vein, Helen does not much like the Wilcoxes beyond her past association with them. At the same time, the Schlegels also befriend a man named Leonard Bast (Samuel West), a poor clerk, who has what Margaret refers to as a romantic ambition in life, and who has a strong sense of doing the right thing as demonstrated by his marriage to a woman named Jacky (Nicola Duffett), who he does not love, but to whom he feels protective. Helen in particular feels it is their obligation to help the Basts in whatever way they can. In their associations with the Wilcoxes and the Basts, Margaret and Helen take different paths to a common point a few years down the road.

A romantic drama film which is based on the novel of the same name written by E. M. Forster and published in 1910. This is a story of class divisions and social relations that is set at the very begging of 20th century. A meaningful life event interweaves love, doubts, duty among three English families. Wilcoxes are the aristocratic (and arrogant) ones, Schlegels are kind and sensitive, and the Basts belong to the lower-middle class. The apple of discord appears to be an inheritance. Margaret Schlegel learns the extraordinary news that before passing away her wealthy friend Ruth Wilcox has decided to make her a wonderful but truly surprising gift. Miss Schlegel becomes the newest mistress of Howard’s End, which is part of the Wilcox estate. While the upper-class relatives of Mrs. Wilcox are angry with this decision, Margaret finds a husband.