Starring: Rupert Graves, Simon Callow, Billie Whitelaw, Denholm Elliott, Judy Parfitt, James Wilby, Barry Foster, Patrick Godfrey, Hugh Grant, Phoebe Nicholls, Helena Bonham-Carter, Ben Kingsley

Directed by: James Ivory

In his first major starring role, Hugh Grant gives a compelling performance as a young Edwardian gentleman torn apart by a homosexual love affair in Maurice, Merchant Ivory Productions award – winning adaption of E.M. Forster's controversial literary classic.

At Cambridge, Clive Durham [Grant] is immediately attracted to a fellow student, Maurice Hall [James Wilby]. The love between them is platonic but intense and, in a society that both persecutes and prosecutes homosexuals, guilt and fear lead to Clive's breakdown and a bitter rift between the two friends. Both men try to suppress their homoerotic instincts – Clive through marriage, Maurice through medicine and psychiatry. But Maurice alone finds the honesty and strength to face up to his true nature when a man from a completely different social world enters his life, the darkly handsome young gamekeeper, Alec Scudder [Rupert Graves]...

Maurice won three major awards at the Venice Film Festival, including Best Actor for Hugh Grant and James Wilby.

Technical Details

Certification: 15
Duration: 134 mins
Cat. No: 0617123(4 FRONT VIDEO) [Merchant Ivory / Odyssey]
Category: Drama:General

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