A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
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Merchant Ivory's HOWARDS END (4K Restoration) | Official US Trailer | Academy Award Winner
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Cast
Emma Thompson
Margaret Schlegel
Helena Bonham Carter
Helen Schlegel
Anthony Hopkins
Henry J. Wilcox
Samuel West
Leonard Bast
Vanessa Redgrave
Ruth Wilcox
Adrian Ross Magenty
Tibby Schlegel
Prunella Scales
Aunt Juley
James Wilby
Charles Wilcox
Joseph Bennett
Paul Wilcox
Jo Kendall
Annie
Jemma Redgrave
Evie Wilcox
Crispin Bonham-Carter
Albert Fussell
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