Maurice [Blu-ray]

Maurice [Blu-ray]

Director: James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, Paul Bradley
Cast: James Wilby
James Wilby
, Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant
James Ivory
Maurice [Blu-ray]

Maurice [Blu-ray]

Director: James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, Paul Bradley
Cast: James Wilby
James Wilby
, Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant
James Ivory

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Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date: 09/05/2017
UPC: 0741952838197
Original Release: 1987
Source: Cohen Media Group
Language: English

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
James Wilby Maurice Hall
Rupert Graves Alec Scudder
Denholm Elliott Doctor Barry
Simon Callow Mr. Ducie
Billie Whitelaw Mrs. Hall
Barry Foster Dean Cornwallis
Judy Parfitt Mrs. Durham
Phoebe Nicholls Anne Durham
Patrick Godfrey Simcox
Mark Tandy Risley
Ben Kingsley Lasker-Jones
Kitty Aldridge Kitty Hall
Helena Michell Ada Hall
Catherine Rabett Pippa Durham
Peter Eyre Rev. Borenius
Michael Jenn Archie London
Mark Payton Chapman
Maria Britneva Mrs. Sheepshanks
John Elmes Hill
Gerald McArthur Undergraduate
Olwen Griffiths Mrs. Scudder
Miles Richarson Undergraduate
Mathew Sim Fetherstonhaugh
Andrew St. Clair Undergraduate
Rick Warner Judge

Technical Credits
James Ivory Director
Ismail Merchant Producer
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