Howards End

• 7.0 Drama
• 1992-03-13
• 142 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Emma Thompson (Margaret Schlegel) Helena Bonham Carter (Helen Schlegel) Anthony Hopkins (Henry J. Wilcox) Samuel West (Leonard Bast) Vanessa Redgrave (Ruth Wilcox) Adrian Ross Magenty (Tibby Schlegel) Prunella Scales (Aunt Juley) James Wilby (Charles Wilcox) Joseph Bennett (Paul Wilcox) Jo Kendall (Annie)

Director:

James Ivory

Writer:

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala