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A Room with a View is a 1986 British romantic comedy and drama film directed by James Ivory. The screenplay was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, based on a work by E. M. Forster. The cast includes Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, and Julian Sands. Ismail Merchant served as producer, with Tony Pierce-Roberts as director of photography and Richard Robbins as composer. The film was produced by Merchant Ivory Productions, Goldcrest Films, and Film4 Productions.
The narrative is set in Italy and England, with filming taking place in Florence. The original languages are English and Italian. The film has a runtime of 116 or 117 minutes. It received an Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, a BAFTA Award for Best Film, a London Film Critics Circle Award for Film of the Year, and a David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director. It was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director.
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6.9When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
Cast
- Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch
- Julian Sands as George Emerson
- Maggie Smith as Charlotte Bartlett
- Denholm Elliott as Mr. Emerson
- Daniel Day-Lewis as Cecil Vyse
- Simon Callow as The Reverend Mr. Beebe
Themes
- based on novel or book
- england
- tennis
- kiss
- surrey
- bed and breakfast (b&b)
- florence, italy
- love
- skinny dipping
- spinster
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Ratings
IMDb
7.2/10
50,850 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Metacritic
83/100
- Year
- 1986
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- Won 3 Oscars. 25 wins & 22 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- James Ivory
- Screenplay by
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Based on
- A Room with a View , 1908 novel, by E. M. Forster
- Produced by
- Ismail Merchant
- Starring
- Maggie Smith Denholm Elliott Judi Dench Simon Callow Helena Bonham Carter Julian Sands Daniel Day-Lewis Fabia Drake Patrick Godfrey Rupert Graves Joan Henley Rosemary Leach
- Cinematography
- Tony Pierce-Roberts
- Edited by
- Humphrey Dixon
- Music by
- Richard Robbins (score) Giacomo Puccini (themes, sung by Kiri Te Kanawa )
- Production companies
- Merchant Ivory Productions Goldcrest Films FilmFour International
- Distributed by
- Curzon Film Distributors (UK), Cinecom Pictures (US)
- Release dates
- 13 December 1985 ( 1985-12-13 ) ( Royal Command Performance ) 11 April 1986 ( 1986-04-11 ) (UK Theatrical)
- Running time
- 117 minutes
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Budget
- £2.3 million
- Box office
- $60 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- Italian
- Based on
- A Room with a View
- Director
- James Ivory
- Screenwriter
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Composer
- Richard Robbins
- Producer
- Ismail Merchant
- Production company
- Film4 Productions
- Cinematographer
- Tony Pierce-Roberts
- Narrative location
- England
- Filming location
- Florence
- Duration
- 116
- FilmAffinity ID
- 336794
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1986-05-23
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Costume Design
- title
- A Room with a View
- production designer
- Gianni Quaranta
- after a work by
- E. M. Forster
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 83/100
- box office
- 20966644
- capital cost
- 2300000
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Encyclopedic overview
A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. It was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who adapted E. M. Forster's 1908 novel A Room with a View. Set in England and Italy, it is about a young woman named Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) in the final throes of the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England and her developing love for a free-spirited young man, George Emerson (Julian Sands). Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench and Simon Callow feature in supporting roles. The film closely follows the novel by the use of chapter titles to distinguish thematic segments.
A Room with a View received universal critical acclaim and was a box-office success. At the 59th Academy Awards it was nominated for eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and won three: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. It also won five British Academy Film Awards and a Golden Globe. In 1999 the British Film Institute placed A Room with a View 73rd on its list of the top 100 British films.
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