| 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 classic novel of Edwardian England. The film telIs the story of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret (Emma Thompson) and HeIen (HeIena Bonham Carter); of a rich businessman, Henry Wilcox (Anthony Hopkins), and his fraiI 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 famiIies are in complete contrast to each other. Margaret and HeIen are ideaIistic, independent and highIy educated. The WiIcoxes are uncuItured and utterly conventionaI. 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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