
A Room With a View
1986, Drama, 1h 55m
32 Reviews 25,000+ RatingsWhat to know
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The hard edges of E.M. Foster novel maybe sanded off, but what we get with A Room with a View is an eminently entertaining comedy with an intellectual approach to love. Read critic reviews
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Cast & Crew
Lucy Honeychurch
Charlotte Bartlett, a chaperon
George Emerson
Mr. Emerson, an English tourist
Cecil Vyse
The Reverend Mr. Beebe
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Critic Reviews for A Room With a View
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If amusing, "A Room With a View" is little more than a lark, a series of skits, a two-hour tribute to the rich British eccentric.
January 4, 2018 | Full Review… -
Glorious romance most likely to appeal to older kids.
December 21, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
A thoroughly entertaining screen adaptation of novelist E.M. Forster's comedy of manners about the Edwardian English upper class at home and abroad, distinguished by superb ensemble acting, intelligent writing and stunning design.
November 19, 2008 | Full Review… -
Decent, honest, truthful and, dearest of all to Forster, it connects.
February 9, 2006 | Full Review… -
A Room With a View is not only uncharacteristically benign for Forster, but also blithely, elegantly funny, which is a fit description of [this]first-rate film adaptation...
May 20, 2003 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review… -
This is a movie about having the courage to face one's feelings, and to risk intimacy, fully knowing and being known by another person.
April 13, 2002 | Rating: 4/5
Audience Reviews for A Room With a View
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Mar 03, 2014Helena Bonham Carter has the big big 80s hair and of course the acting ability to match wits with Maggie Smith and Daniel Day Lewis. A Merchant-Ivory period piece yes..but one with some heart to it.John B Super Reviewer
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Dec 17, 2012Lovely movie. Saw it this time on DVD and it was a splendid way to pass a dreary Sunday afternoon. I love Mr. B, the preacher, the best. Helena Bonham Carter is, of course, the coolest with Maggie Smith a close second.Bathsheba M Super Reviewer
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Jul 07, 2012A young woman falls for a man during her vacation in Italy, but social pressures and his passionate nature make a fop the more socially acceptable choice. Daniel Day-Lewis can play tough, gruff, evil characters like Bill the Butcher and Daniel Plainview and even the sexually voracious Tomas, but can he play an upper-class fop? Yes, he can. The man's range is extraordinary. This film is everything that is good and bad about a Merchant/Ivory production. It's opulent, classic, and essentially British, but it's also occasionally boring, making the most of the most trifling conflicts. Part of this is film's inability as a medium to make compelling commonplace disagreements in a way that is unique to books, but Ivory's direction, distant shots of four or more characters, accentuates the germane nature of the film's tiny conflicts -- about a room with a view, the settling of accounts, and a writer's fictionalizing of a character's dalliance. Overall, if you like Merchant/Ivory films, then you've probably already seen this one, and if you don't, this isn't much different from the rest.Jim H Super Reviewer
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Feb 07, 2012Nice movie. Not my favorite of this genre, but satisfying. A little slow.Cynthia S Super Reviewer
A Room With a View Quotes
Mr. Beebe: | ''If she ever takes to living as she plays, it will be very exciting -both for us and for her.'' |
Mr. Beebe: | If she ever takes to living as she plays, it will be very exciting-both for us and for her. |
Mr. Emerson: | But you have been lying to everyone... including yourself. |
Charlotte Bartlet: | I shall never forgive myself. |
Lucy Honeychurch: | You always say that, Charlotte. And then you always do forgive yourself. |
Lucy Honeychurch: | I dont want to be a Leonardo I want to be myself! |
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