Nominations: Best Picture, Director, Supp. Vanessa Redgrave uses unusual phrasing to create an eerie presence in her successful casting against type as the matriarch in failing health.ġ992: Best Actress (Emma Thompson), Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction. Bonham Carter proves again that she’s the best actress today at embodying the look and spirit of period roles. In the film’s largest role, Thompson is immensely sympathetic. Hopkins can do no wrong in the acting department, portraying an uppercrust nasty with chilling understatement. After chance encounters, Schlegel’s high-spirited sister Helen (Helena Bonham Carter) begins to look out for West’s welfare, resulting in an impromptu tryst and pregnancy. Redgrave’s aristocratic husband Henry (Anthony Hopkins) and daughter Evie (real-life daughter Jemma Redgrave) hardly know Thompson and callously destroy the note to selfishly keep the estate in the family even though they don’t live there anymore.Ī crucial, initially cryptic, subplot involves insurance company clerk Leonard Bast (Sam West) and his wife Jacky (Nicola Duffett). His fame rests largely on his novels Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) and on a large body of criticism. Aristocratic matriarch Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave) on her deathbed scrawls a note bequeathing her beloved estate Howards End to a recent acquaintance, Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson). Forster, in full Edward Morgan Forster, (born January 1, 1879, London, Englanddied June 7, 1970, Coventry, Warwickshire), British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic.
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