Directed by:
James IvoryScreenplay:
Ruth Prawer JhabvalaCinematography:
Tony Pierce-RobertsComposer:
Richard RobbinsCast:
Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson, James Wilby, Samuel West, Jemma Redgrave, Nicola Duffett, Susie Lindeman (more)VOD (2)
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The pinnacle of the decades-long collaboration between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, Howards End is a luminous vision of E.M. Forster’s cutting 1910 novel about class divisions in Edwardian England. Emma Thompson won an Academy Award for her dynamic portrayal of Margaret Schlegel, a flighty yet compassionate middle-class intellectual whose friendship with the dying wife (Vanessa Redgrave) of rich capitalist Henry Wilcox (Anthony Hopkins) commences an intricately woven tale of money, love, and death that encompasses the country’s highest and lowest social echelons. With a brilliant, layered script by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (who also won an Oscar) and a roster of gripping performances, Howards End is a work of both great beauty and vivid darkness, and one of cinema’s best literary adaptations. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Anthony Hopkins](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/297/165297927_22daa8.jpg)
Anthony Hopkins
UK
Best movies:
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Father (2020)
![Vanessa Redgrave](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/544/162544391_8289b2.jpg)
Vanessa Redgrave
UK
Best movies:
Atonement (2007)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
A Man for All Seasons (1988) (TV movie)
![Helena Bonham Carter](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/810/164810600_08af55.jpg)
Helena Bonham Carter
UK
Best movies:
Fight Club (1999)
The King's Speech (2010)
One Life (2023)
![Emma Thompson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/679/163679060_587380.jpg)
Emma Thompson
UK
Best movies:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Love Actually (2003)
In the Name of the Father (1993)
![James Wilby](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/893/162893091_30a2a3.jpg)
James Wilby
Best movies:
Endeavour (2012) (series)
Ripper Street (2012) (series)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
![Samuel West](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/387/162387542_3cbefa.png)
Samuel West
UK
Best movies:
The Gentlemen (2019)
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999) (TV movie)
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
![Jemma Redgrave](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/634/158634064_eab636.jpg)
Jemma Redgrave
UK
Best movies:
Cold Blood (2005) (series)
Howards End (1992)
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) (series)
Nicola Duffett
UK
Best movies:
Endeavour (2012) (series)
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007) (TV movie)
Pollyanna (2003) (TV movie)
Susie Lindeman
Best movies:
Howards End (1992)
Adrian Ross Magenty
Best movies:
Howards End (1992)
Barbara Hicks
UK
Best movies:
Death on the Nile (1978)
Brazil (1985)
Orlando (1992)
Joseph Bennett
UK
Best movies:
Howards End (1992)
Jo Kendall
UK
Best movies:
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Scum (1979)
Howards End (1992)
Mark Payton
Best movies:
Howards End (1992)
Maurice (1987)
![Peter Cellier](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/477/161477694_5090ac.jpg)
Peter Cellier
UK
Best movies:
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
And the Ship Sails On (1983)
![Prunella Scales](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/570/161570374_384a9b.jpg)
Prunella Scales
UK
Best movies:
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) (series)
Howards End (1992)
Second Best (1994)
Ian Latimer
Best movies:
Howards End (1992)
Mary Nash
Best movies:
Howards End (1992)
Siegbert Prawer
German Empire
Best movies:
Howards End (1992)
Mark Tandy
Ireland
Best movies:
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Shackleton (2002) (TV movie)