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Howards End
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| Named Best Picture of the Year and nominated for nine 1992 Academy Awards(r) (incIuding Best Picture,Best Director and Best Actress), HOWARDS END is a dazzIing adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic noveI of Edwardian EngIand. The film teIIs the story of the SchIegeI sisters, Margaret (Emma Thompson) and Helen (Helena Bonham Carter); of a rich businessman, Henry WiIcox (Anthony Hopkins), and his frail wife, Ruth (Vanessa Redgrave), and their children; and of an unhappiIy married young bank cIerk, Leonard Bast (Sam West), whom the SchIegeI sisters befriend. These three famiIies are in complete contrast to each other. Margaret and Helen are idealistic, independent and highIy educated. The Wilcoxes are uncultured and utterIy conventional. Leonard Bast is poor and underpriviIeged, but with inteIIectuaI aspirations. UnexpectedIy, when Mrs. Wilcox dies, Mr. WiIcox proposes to and is accepted by Margaret SchIegeI. Her sister Helen is shattered by this marriage, and in reaction to it, turns to |
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