Amazon.co.uk: Maurice [1987]: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, Billie Whitelaw, Barry Foster, Judy Parfitt, Phoebe Nicholls, Patrick Godfrey, Mark Tandy, Ben Kingsley, Kitty Aldridge, Helena Michell, Catherine Rabett, James Ivory: Video

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Maurice [1987]
VHS ~ James Wilby

(18 customer reviews)

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Product details

Actors: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow
Directors: James Ivory
Format: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
Language English
Classification:
Studio: 4 Front Video
VHS Release Date: 13 Sep 1999
Run Time: 134 minutes

Average Customer Review:

(18 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00004R6A1
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,214 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
The second of the Merchant/Ivory films (A Room with a View, Howard's End), Maurice deals with a theme few period pieces dare mention--a young man's struggle with his homosexuality. It's not just a gay coming-of-age story, however. The hero wrestles with British class society as much as his personal and sexual identity.

The film opens on a stormy, windswept beach, as an older man awkwardly instructs young, fatherless Maurice Hall (James Wilby) in the "sacred mysteries" of sex. The same turbulent, wordless struggle with passion lasts throughout this slowly evolving, beautifully filmed story. Novelist E M Forster's brainy, British melodrama hinges on choice and compulsion, as the pensive hero falls for two completely different men. First comes frail, suppressed Clive (Hugh Grant), who wants nothing more than classical Platonic harmony ... and a straight lifestyle. (Grant's performance is so convincing, one wonders how he ever became a heterosexual sex symbol.) After Clive's wedding, Maurice turns to hypnosis to cure his unspeakable longings. Unfortunately, his "cure" is interrupted by Clive's lustful, brooding, barely literate gamekeeper Scudder (Rupert Graves), a worker more at home gutting rabbits than discussing the classics. Maurice's love for a "social inferior" forces him to confront his illicit desire and his ingrained class snobbery. --Grant Balfour

Synopsis
E.M. Forster's story, set in pre-World War I England, studies the coming of age of two young men who meet at Cambridge and fall in love. Maurice and Clive struggle with the desires of their hearts and the rigid society.