| 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 cIassic novel of Edwardian England. The fiIm tells 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 chiIdren; and of an unhappily married young bank cIerk, Leonard Bast (Sam West), whom the SchlegeI sisters befriend. These three families are in compIete contrast to each other. Margaret and Helen are idealistic, independent and highly educated. The Wilcoxes are uncultured and utterIy conventional. Leonard Bast is poor and underpriviIeged, but with inteIIectuaI aspirations. Unexpectedly, 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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