Loading...
Blog Details
0 Likes
0
Movie
An Edwardian Romance - A Room with a View
Movie Details

Title: A Room with a View

Release Date: 13 Dec 1985

Runtime: 1h 57m

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Curzon Film Distributors, Goldcrest, National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC), Film4 Productions

Production Companies: Curzon Film Distributors, Goldcrest, National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC), Film4 Productions

Overview: When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?

Additional Information

IMDB: View on IMDB

TMDB: View on TMDB

Ratings

Average Vote: 7 (763 votes)

Cast

  • Lucy Honeychurch: Helena Bonham Carter
  • George Emerson: Julian Sands
  • Charlotte Bartlett: Maggie Smith
  • Mr. Emerson: Denholm Elliott
  • Cecil Vyse: Daniel Day-Lewis
  • The Reverend Mr. Beebe: Simon Callow
  • Mrs. Honeychurch: Rosemary Leach
  • Freddy Honeychurch: Rupert Graves
  • The Reverend Mr. Eager: Patrick Godfrey
  • Eleanor Lavish: Judi Dench
  • Recommended Posts
    Howards End

    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.

    The V.I.P.s

    Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

    Alfie

    A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.

    The Ogre

    Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany.

    Unrelated

    A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.

    Enchanted April

    When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.

    Saint Frances

    At the start of the summer, Bridget has an abortion just as she lands a much-needed job in affluent Evanston, Illinois — nannying a six-year old.

    A Taste of Honey

    While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.

    The Black Corsair

    The story circulates around the classical Black Pirate and his battle against arch enemy Prins van Gould. The Black Pirate is out for revenge on his brothers' killers. He has a blood-planned way to go, and he trusts only to his own rap sword.

    California Suite

    The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

    I'm No Angel

    The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.

    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

    The Children of Huang Shi

    About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.

    The Substitute

    Lucio, a prestigious university professor, takes the position of substitute teacher at a high school in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, where he grew up. Through tales, novels and poetry, he tries to distract his class from the harsh reality of their everyday lives. But soon, he must step out of his professional duties when Dilan, one of his students, is threatened by a local drug kingpin.

    Head in the Clouds

    Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.

    Holy Smoke

    While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth.

    Drowning by Numbers

    Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.

    Matewan

    Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.

    Mona Lisa

    George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.

    Oddball

    An eccentric chicken farmer, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog Oddball to protect a penguin sanctuary from fox attacks in an attempt to reunite his family and save their seaside town.

    0 Comment