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Howards End
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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| Named Best Picture of the Year and nominated for nine 1992 Academy Awards(r) (including Best Picture,Best Director and Best Actress), HOWARDS END is a dazzling adaptation of E.M. Forster's cIassic novel of Edwardian England. The fiIm teIls 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 clerk, Leonard Bast (Sam West), whom the SchIegel sisters befriend. These three families are in complete contrast to each other. Margaret and Helen are idealistic, independent and highly 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 Schlegel. Her sister Helen is shattered by this marriage, and in reaction to it, turns to |
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