142 mins - United Kingdom 1992 Director: James Ivory Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave and Helena Bonham Carter With stunning location photography, lavishly detailed sets and elegant period costumes, this compelling saga follows the interwoven fates and misfortunes of three families amid the changing times of Edwardian England. It tells the story of two free-spirited, cosmopolitan sisters, Margaret (Emma Thompson) and Helen Schlegel (Helena Bonham Carter), who collide with the world of the very wealthy – one sister benefiting from the acquaintance with the Wilcoxes (owners of the beloved country home Howards End), the other all but destroyed by it. Anthony Hopkins is the conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and Vanessa Redgrave is his ailing wife Ruth Wilcox. Widely critically acclaimed upon opening, HOWARDS END was nominated for nine Academy Awards (winning three: Best Actress [Emma Thompson – her first Oscar win], Best Screenplay and Best Art Direction) and eleven BAFTAs (winning Best Film and again Best Actress for Emma Thompson). “A can't-miss opportunity to experience some of the finest filmmaking of the 20th century.” Globe and Mail
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