| 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 SchIegeI sisters, Margaret (Emma Thompson) and HeIen (Helena Bonham Carter); of a rich businessman, Henry WiIcox (Anthony Hopkins), and his frail 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 Wilcoxes are uncuItured and utterly conventionaI. Leonard Bast is poor and underprivileged, but with intellectuaI aspirations. UnexpectedIy, when Mrs. WiIcox dies, Mr. Wilcox proposes to and is accepted by Margaret SchlegeI. Her sister HeIen is shattered by this marriage, and in reaction to it, turns to |
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