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A Room with a View

  • UK A Room with a View (more)
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Drama / Romance
UK, 1985, 117 min (Alternative: 113 min)

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When a young Englishwoman named Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) and her spinster chaperone Charlotte (Maggie Smith) travel to Italy, they become acquainted with a free-spirited and unconventional Englishman named Mr. Emerson (Denholm Elliot), and his enigmatic and romantically unhappy son, George (Julian Sands). After George kisses Lucy during a picnic in the Florentine hills, Charlotte rushes her back to England. Safely home, Lucy becomes engaged to her stiff and very proper fiancé Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis). After finding out the Emersons have moved close by, Lucy has a hard time ignoring her attraction to the unsuitable George, and must wrestle with her inner romantic longings and choose between passion and convention. Nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1986 and winner of three, A Room with a View is the film that defined Merchant-Ivory as the masters of the romantic period piece and this brilliant adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel ranks as their very finest work. (Umbrella Entertainment)

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Academy Awards

  • 1987 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Best Adapted Screenplay)
  • 1987 - Best Achievement in Production Design
  • 1987 - Best Achievement in Costume Design
  • 1987 - Best Motion Picture of the Year
  • 1987 - James Ivory (Best Achievement in Directing)
  • 1987 - Denholm Elliott (Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role)
  • 1987 - Maggie Smith (Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role)
  • 1987 - Tony Pierce-Roberts (Best Achievement in Cinematography)

British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)