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Maurice (the Merchant Ivory Collection)
DVD ~ James Wilby

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Product details

Actors: James Wilby, Hugh Grant
Format: PAL
Language English
Region: Region 2 ( DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification:
Studio: Prism Leisure Corporation
DVD Release Date: 6 Sep 2004
Run Time: 134 minutes

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(18 customer reviews)

DVD Features:
ASIN: B0002W13R0
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 37,912 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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