A Room with a View (1985 film)

A Room with a View
A man and a woman, the cityscape of Florence and Il Duomo in the background
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJames Ivory
Screenplay byRuth Prawer Jhabvala
Based onA Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
Produced byIsmail Merchant
Starring
CinematographyTony Pierce-Roberts
Edited byHumphrey Dixon
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byCurzon Film Distributors
Release dates
  • 13 December 1985 (1985-12-13) (RCFP)
  • 11 April 1986 (1986-04-11)
Running time
117 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
Budget
  • £2.3 million
  • ($3 million)[2][3]
Box office$21 million[2]

A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. It is written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who adapted E. M. Forster's 1908 novel A Room with a View. Set in England and Italy, it is about a young woman named Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) in the final throes of the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England and her developing love for a free-spirited young man, George Emerson (Julian Sands). Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench and Simon Callow feature in supporting roles. The film closely follows the novel by the use of chapter titles to distinguish thematic segments.

A Room with a View received universal critical acclaim and was a box-office success. At the 59th Academy Awards it was nominated for eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and won three: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. It also won five British Academy Film Awards and a Golden Globe. In 1999 the British Film Institute placed A Room with a View 73rd on its list of the top 100 British films.

  1. ^ "A Room with a View (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. 1 January 1986. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
  2. ^ a b A Room with a View at Box Office Mojo
  3. ^ "Bad Beginning." Sunday Times [London, England] 15 June 1986: 45. The Sunday Times Digital Archive. Web. 8 April 2014.