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7 November 1997 (USA)
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A couple with everything but money. An heiress with everything but love. A temptation no one could resist.
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An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Another 16 wins
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17 nominations
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A Serious Man and the odd movie out
(From The Guardian - Film News. 29 November 2009, 1:30 PM, PST)
Bonham-Carter Cast For Elton John's First Movie
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 26 November 1998)
(From The Guardian - Film News. 29 November 2009, 1:30 PM, PST)
Bonham-Carter Cast For Elton John's First Movie
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 26 November 1998)
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Carter showcase of very good movie
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Helena Bonham Carter | ... | Kate Croy | |
| Linus Roache | ... | Merton Densher | |
| Alison Elliott | ... | Millie Theale | |
| Charlotte Rampling | ... | Aunt Maude | |
| Elizabeth McGovern | ... | Susan 'Susie' Stringham | |
| Michael Gambon | ... | Lionel Croy, Kate's Father | |
| Alex Jennings | ... | Lord Mark | |
| Ben Miles | ... | First Journalist | |
| Philip Wright | ... | Second Journalist | |
| Alexander John | ... | Butler | |
| Shirley Chantrell | ... | Opium Den Lady | |
| Diana Kent | ... | Merton's Party Companion | |
| Georgio Serafini | ... | Eugenio | |
| Rachele Crisafulli | ... | Concierge |
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Rated R for sexuality.
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102 min
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Colour (Rankcolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Canada:14A (Ontario) |
Iceland:L |
Singapore:M18 (re-rating) |
Singapore:R(A) |
Belgium:KT |
Finland:K-12 |
France:U |
Germany:6 |
Japan:R |
Mexico:B |
Portugal:M/12 |
South Korea:18 |
Spain:13 |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:15 |
USA:R (certificate #35341)
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Errors in geography: The tile pattern on the Underground stations the train passes through at the beginning of the film are identical in pattern and color for each station. Each station on the Piccadilly line had it's own tile pattern and color scheme so that the illiterate could still recognize their station without needing to read the station name.
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This was not one of my favorite novels when I read it (for James, I prefer THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY), but this is a very good film. Director Iain Softley and writer Hossein Amini made the smart decision to move this up in time to the 1910's, which enables them to get to the passions more than James does here. Softley also makes this darker than most literary adaptations, in look and in tone, without suffocating it, and he avoids making this a film about production design rather than about a story. He does labor a bit in trying for tragedy, but that's only a quibble.
Alison Elliot, a good actress (I liked her in THE UNDERNEATH and the otherwise flawed THE SPITFIRE GRILL), takes awhile to warm up as Millie, because she seems a little too modern, but she avoids easy sentiment as the dying heiress. Linus Roache, who I thought was a little awkward in PRIEST, here avoids the trap of being the third wheel, making us understand what both Millie and Kate see in Merton. But the real triumph here is Helena Bonham Carter, who gave the best performance of the year. One character says of Kate, "There's something going on behind those beautiful lashes," and that can usually be said of the characters Carter plays, but sometimes she's overly detached. Here, she's completely engaged, and she pulls off the difficult trick of never losing our sympathies even when her character does something despicable. And where James sort of made Kate just manipulative, Carter makes her human and longing.