A Room with a View (film)

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A Room with a View
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Directed by	James Ivory
Produced by	Ismail Merchant
Written by	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (based on the novel by E.M. Forster)
Starring	Maggie Smith Helena Bonham Carter Denholm Elliott Julian Sands Daniel Day Lewis Judi Dench
Music by	Richard Robbins (score) Giacomo Puccini (sung by Kiri Te Kanawa)
Cinematography	Tony Pierce-Roberts
Editing by	Humphrey Dixon
Distributed by	Curzon (UK) Cinecom (US)
Release date(s)	December, 1985 (première) 7 March 1986 (NYC) April, 1986 (wide) 11 April 1986
Running time	UK:117 min
Language	English
Budget	$3,000,000 (estimated)
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A Room with a View is a 1986 Merchant Ivory Productions' Academy Award-winning feature film, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The film was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant.

The film is based upon the novel A Room with a View by E.M. Forster and stars Maggie Smith (Charlotte Bartlett), Helena Bonham Carter (Lucy Honeychurch), Denholm Elliott (Mr. Emerson), Julian Sands (George Emerson), Simon Callow (Mr. Beebe), Judi Dench (Miss Lavish), Daniel Day-Lewis (Cecil Vyse), and Rupert Graves (Freddy Honeychurch).

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The film tells the story of a woman struggling with her individuality in the face of the restrictive Edwardian culture of turn-of-the century England and her love for a free-spirited young man. The story begins in Florence then moves to England.

The film is a very close adaptation of Forster's novel; and even uses his chapter titles to divide the film into sections.