A Room with a View (1985 film) A Room with a View (1985 film) A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film directed by James Ivory, screenplay written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and produced by Ismail Merchant, of E. M. Forster's novel of the same name (1908). The film closely follows the novel by use of chapter titles to distinguish thematic segments. Set in England and Italy, it is about a young woman named Lucy Honeychurch in the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England, and her developing love for a free-spirited young man, George Emerson. It stars Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy and
A Room with a View believes himself to be very democratic) thinks to be a snob. Lucy is angry with Cecil, as she had tentatively arranged for the elderly Misses Alan, other guests from the Pension Bertolini, to take the villa. Fate takes an ironic turn as Mr. Beebe takes Mr. Lucy's brother, Freddy, to meet the Emersons. Freddy invites George for "a bathe" in a nearby pond. Freddy, George and Mr Beebe go to the pond, in the woods. Freddy and George take off their clothes and jump in, eventually convincing Mr. Beebe to join them. They enjoy themselves so much they end up