A Room With a View1985
A Room With a View (1985)
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Critic Consensus: 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.
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Cast
as Lucy Honeychurch
as George
as Charlotte
as Emerson
as Cecil
as Reverend Beebe
as Miss Lavish
as Mrs. Honeychurch
as Freddy
as Eager
as Catherine
as Teresa Alan
as Mrs. Vyse
as The Cockney Signora
as Sir Harry Otway
as Minnie Beebe
as Mrs. Butterworth
as Santa Croce Guide
as The New Charlotte and Lucy
as The New Charlotte and Lucy
as Mr. Floyd
as Miss Pole
as Phaeton
as Persephone
as Murdered Youth
as Murdered Youth
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Critic Reviews for A Room With a View
All Critics (30) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (0) | DVD (4)
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.
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.
Decent, honest, truthful and, dearest of all to Forster, it connects.
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...
It is an intellectual film, but intellectual about emotions: It encourages us to think about how we feel, instead of simply acting on our feelings.
The film's charms are many but they are not the sort that resonate with any aspect of human behaviour with which I am familiar. When you get this English, or this Edwardian, or, rather, late Victorian, really, it's like science fiction, I suppose.
Audience Reviews for A Room With a View
Lovely 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.
Super Reviewer
A 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.
Super Reviewer
Nice movie. Not my favorite of this genre, but satisfying. A little slow.
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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! |