Maurice

Name: Maurice
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: September 18, 1987
Duration: 140 min
Rating: 75
Cast: James Wilby, Rupert Graves

1987

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Cinecom Pictures | Release Date: September 18, 1987 | R

Starring: James Wilby, Rupert Graves

Summary: Cambridge students Clive (Grant) and Maurice (Wilby) fall in love, but Clive soon decides he must take his place in society and marry. Maurice's life is changed when he meets Alec Scudder (Graves), the gamekeeper at Clive's estate.

Director: James Ivory

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 140 min

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Judy Stone

To director James Ivory's credit, however, he has recreated that period in pre-World War I England and endowed the platonic passion between two upper-class Englishmen with singular grace in Maurice. [25 Sep 1987]

Janet Maslin

Mr. Ivory and Ismail Merchant have long since learned to breathe life into their material without excessive reverence, in a manner that is as decorous as it is dramatic. As might be expected, the costumes, settings and cinematography are once again ravishing. Read full review

Michael Blowen

The team of producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory has created another classy film of a classic novel with their stunning adaptation of E.M. Forster's Maurice. [24 Sep 1987]

Kevin Thomas

Maurice's slow, agonized dawning of his true nature and its consequences are as beautifully evoked on the screen as it is on the printed page, thanks to James Wilby's wonderfully unaffected portrayal of Maurice and to Ivory and his co-adapter Kit Hesketh-Harvey's graceful yet succinct script, a miracle of both apt selectivity and development that does full honor to its distinguished source. [01 Oct 1987]

Roger Ebert

The film is so well made and acted, because it captures its period so meticulously. Read full review

David Sterritt

In this forthright screen version of E.M. Forster's posthumously published novel. Directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, who show the same literate skill and the same fidelity to their source that marked "A Room With a View." Read full review

Richard Schickel

Maurice (pronounced Morris) is all high-mindedness and good taste. It has no emotional tension or - heaven forfend - strong expression of frustration or need. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Nov 24, 2021

This film handles the LGBT subject area quite well. Its a thought provoking watch and it features good performances from the main cast (James Wilby, Rupert Graves and Hugh Grant). Its a good period drama that I'd recommend.

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amheretojudge

Jun 6, 2019

A coming-of-age film with a coming-of-change in the generation, adapt it slowly, like baby steps.

Maurice Ivory has actually been to this road. And he will also receive an Oscar in future for an adaptation like such of Call Me By Your Name. The co-writer and director, James Ivory hasA coming-of-age film with a coming-of-change in the generation, adapt it slowly, like baby steps.

Maurice

Ivory has actually been to this road. And he will also receive an Oscar in future for an adaptation like such of Call Me By Your Name. The co-writer and director, James Ivory has walked on this same path, with only few changes and few turns taken differently. A brilliant piece of artistry that sculpts a strong resonant relationship in its first act, only to shift into the opposite direction that may or may not join the track but will surely tangle into each other vigorously. That's right, a film with such a pleasant bright colors brimmed across the frame, does get shook untidily in those last moments.

Or maybe, they are still pretending in their well-pressed poised suits and just their diffident nature on expressing their views, for almost two hours has tamed us to be frightened of even long silences. Through James Ivory's I see it and the cinema doesn't get better than this. Watch him create arc by using known mandatory content that we use in everyday of our lives and never actually notice it in such a way up till now. That's why I have loved Ivory's world so much, a teapot grows elegant and emotions weigh incredibly in your perspective, you leave the screen with an awe and his opinion in your mind.

Everything is in slow motion, everything waiting for you to be enjoyed. Hugh Grant as the lead has got the least leader-esque role and yet confused to the core, he walks or fumbles with genuine warmth despite of reaping questionable looks from us. James Wilby, on the other hand, has quite an empathetic cloak to put on, the mistakes are part of his character and peace, the cake he deserves. His paranoid impulsion is the key in understanding him, he will ask you about loads of things, Maurice, and will only account in the little guy living inside him, poking perpetually, turns out he is a good guy.… Expand

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