Maurice (1987)
Directed by James Ivory
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
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Maurice (Anglicized as Morris) is a hero who's as besotted and bumbling as Heathcliff in "Wuthering Heights."
In Forster's "A Passage to India," it was the Indians; in "A Room With a View," the Italians; here it is the help.
It's part of the British cinema's big coming-out party that began with "Another Country" and continued through "My Beautiful Laundrette" and "Prick Up Your Ears."
Following in the wake of their acclaimed screen adaptation of A Room with A View, the team of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant have turned to another E.M. Forster work to create Maurice.
This is the first film from the team of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant since " A Room with a View ," and is based once again on a novel by E.M. Forster.
It is set in pre-World War I Britain, and Forster's observation of prim and preposterous behavior has been polished to perfection by Ivory and his producer-partner Ismail Merchant of "A Room With a View."