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Where Angels Fear to Tread (1992)

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Reviews Counted:11

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Rotten:3

Average Rating:6.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins 2 secs

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Adaptation of E.M. Forster's first novel, written in 1905, about a middle-aged English widow, Lilia Herriton, who shocks her very repressed, proper, and dull in-laws by marrying a young local she... Adaptation of E.M. Forster's first novel, written in 1905, about a middle-aged English widow, Lilia Herriton, who shocks her very repressed, proper, and dull in-laws by marrying a young local she meets while vacationing in the Italian countryside. Tragedy strikes and her relatives plot to bring her young child to England for a "proper" upbringing. [More]

Starring: Judy Davis, Helena Bonham-Carter, Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren

Starring: Judy Davis, Helena Bonham-Carter, Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Giovanni Guidelli

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The story's constant and unexpected turns do provide rewards, but the real value of the film is in the richness with which it presents moral and emotional conflicts, laying them out with sensible realism and power.

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A richly nuanced comedy of manners about the affect of a foreign country and its culture on two provincial souls.

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Where Angels Fear to Tread is slow and deliberate, but the film is so absorbing that the audience won't mind.

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