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
Tim Burton to have eyes, which was a fight they did not win in the end. There were over 100 people working on this movie just to create the characters. Along with the 3 years of work it took to produce the movie. Burton collaborated with Selick again for "James and the Giant Peach" (1996), which Burton co-produced. Jack Skellington, the protagonist of the film, was so popular that it later resurfaced in Selick's film "James and the Giant Peach," and then again in a small scene in "Coraline" where the Other Mother is cooking, viewers are able to see Jack's familiar