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Maurice |
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Genre
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Drama,
Gay & Lesbian Films,
Period Film.
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Year
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1987 |
Director
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James Ivory.
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Actors
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James Wilby,
Hugh Grant,
Rupert Graves,
Denholm Elliott,
Simon Callow,
Billie Whitelaw,
Ben Kingsley,
Judy Parfitt,
Phoebe Nicholls,
Mark Tandy,
Helena Michell,
Kitty Aldridge,
Patrick Godfrey,
Michael Jenn,
Barry Foster,
Peter Eyre,
Catherine Rabett,
Orlando Wells,
Helena Bonham Carter,
Maria Britneva,
John Elmes,
Alan Foss,
Philip Fox,
Olwen Griffiths,
Chris Hunter,
Gerald McArthur,
Breffini McKenna,
Mark Payton,
Miles Richarson,
Andrew St. Clair,
Philada Sewell,
Mathew Sim,
Harriet Thorpe,
Julian Wadham,
Rick Warner,
Alan Whybrow.
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File
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Runtime: |
139:00 |
Codec: |
dvd-rip |
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1249.28 Mb |
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Storyline:
Director James Ivory brings his subdued, "Masterpiece Theater" style to a forbidden subject — homosexual love. Maurice is based on E.M. Forster's suppressed 1914 novel that was held back from publication until after his death. The film takes place at Cambridge, before World War I, when homosexuality was outlawed in Great Britain. Clive (Hugh Grant), an aristocratic Englishman with a life of privilege, suddenly shocks his close friend Maurice (James Wilby) by declaring his love for him. Maurice is initially stunned by the pronouncement, but in the end finds himself giving Clive a passionate kiss and telling him that he loves him as well. Clive, in the stiff-upper-lip British manner, considers their love to be more of an intellectual concept, but Maurice becomes passionate about the affair. Clive, afraid of being exposed as a homosexual, backs off and breaks up with Maurice for marriage, family, and politics. Maurice is crestfallen, but then he has a passionate affair with Clive's gamekeeper, Scudder (Rupert Graves), and Maurice and Scudder decide to risk their reputations by openly living together as lovers. |
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