Maurice [videorecording] / A Merchant Ivory Film ; in association with Cinecom Pictures and Film Four International ; Maurice Productions, Ltd. ; producer, Ismail Merchant ; screenplay, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, James Ivory ; director, James Ivory.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: MAU010 | Criterion CollectionSubtitle language: English Series: Merchant Ivory collectionPublication details: [Chicago, Ill.] : Criterion Collection : Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment, 2004.Description: 2 videodiscs (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0780026764
- 9780780026766
- University of Cambridge -- Students -- Drama
- Gay college students -- Great Britain -- 20th century -- Drama
- Gay men -- England -- Drama
- Homosexuality -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- 20th century -- Drama
- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Drama
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama
- Director of photography, Pierre Lhomme ; editor, Katherine Wenning ; music, Richard Robbins ; costume designer, Jenny Beavan, John Bright ; production designer, Brian Ackland-Snow.
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Maurice | Available | 33111006616458 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Director James Ivory brings his subdued, "Masterpiece Theater" style to a forbidden subject -- homosexual love. Maurice is based on E.M. Forster's suppressed 1914 novel that was held back from publication until after his death. The film takes place at Cambridge, before World War I, when homosexuality was outlawed in Great Britain. Clive (Hugh Grant), an aristocratic Englishman with a life of privilege, suddenly shocks his close friend Maurice (James Wilby) by declaring his love for him. Maurice is initially stunned by the pronouncement, but in the end finds himself giving Clive a passionate kiss and telling him that he loves him as well. Clive, in the stiff-upper-lip British manner, considers their love to be more of an intellectual concept, but Maurice becomes passionate about the affair. Clive, afraid of being exposed as a homosexual, backs off and breaks up with Maurice for marriage, family, and politics. Maurice is crestfallen, but then he has a passionate affair with Clive's gamekeeper, Scudder (Rupert Graves), and Maurice and Scudder decide to risk their reputations by openly living together as lovers. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
From the novel by E.M. Forster.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.
Special features include new high-definition digital transfer; deleted scenes, including a reconstructed opening sequence.
disc 1. Feature -- disc 2. Special features : Conversation with the filmmakers (director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, actors James Wilby, Hugh Grant and Rupert Graves, and screenwriter Kit Hesketh-Harvey) (13 min.) ; The Story of Maurice (ca. 30 min.) ; 12 Deleted scenes (10 with optional commentary by James Ivory) ; original theatrical trailer.
Director of photography, Pierre Lhomme ; editor, Katherine Wenning ; music, Richard Robbins ; costume designer, Jenny Beavan, John Bright ; production designer, Brian Ackland-Snow.
James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, Ben Kingsley, Billie Whitelaw, Barry Foster, Judy Parfitt, Phoebe Nicholls.
E.M. Forrester's story of two Edwardian-era Cambridge students that fall in love, but must make difficult choices between abiding by British society's strict norms regarding homosexuality and following through on their feelings.
MPAA rating: R.
DVD ; NTSC, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.