MAURICE

Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Ben Kingsley,

Denholm Elliot, Simon Callow, Helena Bonham-Carter

MGM; Director: James Ivory

Rated R; 135 minutes; 1987

Stylish drama about two young men who fall in love while attending an upper-class British boarding school in the early 1900’s. When one decides he can’t deal with the stigma of their relationship they part ways to find love in socially different worlds. Based on the autobiographical writings of E.M. Forster.

 

REVIEWS

"Beautifully realized and extremely well acted."

– Leonard Maltin