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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Music
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Director:
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James Ivory
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Actors:
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Billie Whitelaw,
Judy Parfitt,
James Wilby,
Hugh Grant,
Rupert Graves,
Denholm Elliott,
Simon Callow,
Barry Foster,
Phoebe Nicholls,
Patrick Godfrey
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Duration:
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140 min.
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Rating:
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(7.5/10)102.5
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Plot Summary:
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At Cambridge, Clive Durham [Grant] is immediately attracted to a person student, Maurice Hall [James Wilby]. The be captivated by between them is non-sexual but profound and, in a sisterhood that both persecutes and prosecutes homosexuals, responsibility and cowardice lead to Clive's breakdown and a bitter rift between the two friends. Both men try to suppress their homoerotic instincts - Clive finished with marriage, Maurice through medicine and psychiatry. But Maurice abandoned finds the forthrightness and strength to guts up to his true nature when a staff from a completely unlike group f... abulous enters his life, the darkly handsome babyish gamekeeper, Alec Scudder [Rupert Graves]...
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Maurice
Pampered exploration of E. M. Forster's posthumously published and semi-autobiographical novel. An acquired bite, but numberless scenes experience habitual appeal.
Maurice
Maurice offers the whole kit we expect from a Industrialist Ivory take - smashing locations, a who's who of top British actors and an vision into the fabulous of the repressed ‚lite classes. On nip of that, however, we wheedle a delicately handled expression of faggy love and an account of the strain of being gay at a time when it was illegal for men to organize sex. Maurice (Wilby) and Clive (Contribution, in his chief vital role) are students at Cambridge, secure friends whose attaching is actually something more. Clive expresses his love for Maurice, but is only looking with a view an idealised, non-sexual relationship, whereas the initially reluctant Maurice is after a more sexual communion. Both men, however, are frightened fixed when their gay colleagu...
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