Mary Nash

Howards End -- Personal and social conflicts are examined in the early days of Britain's strict class consciousness in this critically acclaimed adaptation. An audacious and independent young woman is seduced by a successful man whose intentions are not what they seem.

Jerome Kern's life in a musical with many famous songs performed by well known artists.

Nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director and winner of three including Best Actress for Emma Thompson ("Love, Actually," "Primary Colors"). Personal and social conflicts are examined in the early days of Britain's strict class consciousness in this critically acclaimed adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic novel. An audacious and independent young woman of no means (Thompson) is seduced by a successful man whose intentions are not what they seem. Award-winning cast includes Academy Award-winners Anthony Hopkins ("Red Dragon," "Hannibal") and Vanessa Redgrave ("Girl, Interrupted," "Mission: Impossible"), Academy Award-nominee Helena Bonham Carter ("Big Fish," "Planet of the Apes"), Samuel West ("Van Helsing," "Notting Hill") and James Wilby ("Gosford Park," "Maurice"). Directed by Oscar-nominated James Ivory ("Le Divorce," "The Remains of the Day").

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.