Howards End
Merchant Ivory’s adaptation of EM Forster’s classic 1910 novel, starring Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Hopkins & Vanessa Redgrave returns to the big screen in a beautiful new 4K restoration. Stunning location photography, lavishly detailed sets & elegant period costumes, this compelling saga follows the interwoven fates and misfortunes of three families amid the changing times of Edwardian England. It tells the story of two free-spirited, cosmopolitan sisters, Margaret (Emma Thompson) and Helen Schlegel (Helena Bonham Carter), who collide with the world of the very wealthy ­­– one sister benefiting from the acquaintance with the Wilcoxes (owners of the beloved country home Howards End), the other all but destroyed by it. Anthony Hopkins is the conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and Vanessa Redgrave is his ailing wife Ruth Wilcox.
Drama, Romance
Merchant Ivory Productions, The Criterion Collection
Vanessa Redgrave as Ruth Wilcox, Helena Bonham Carter as Helen Schlegel, Emma Thompson as Margaret Schlegel, Prunella Scales as Aunt Juley, Anthony Hopkins as Henry J. Wilcox, Joseph Bennett as Paul Wilcox, Adrian Ross Magenty as Tibby Schlegel, Jo Kendall as Annie, Samuel West as Leonard Bast, James Wilby as Charles Wilcox, Jemma Redgrave as Evie Wilcox, Crispin Bonham-Carter as Albert Fussell, Simon Callow as Music and Meaning Lecturer (uncredited)