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Margaret Schlegel is a flighty yet compassionate middle-class intellectual whose friendship with the dying wife of rich capitalist Henry Wilcox commences an intricately woven tale of money, love, and death that encompasses the country's highest and lowest social echelons.
named best picture of the year and nominated for nine 1992 academy awards (including best picture, best director and best actress), howards end is a dazzling adaptation of e.m. forster's classic novel of edwardian england. the film tells the story of the schlegel sister, margaret (emma thompson) and helen (helena bonham carter); of a rich businessman, henry wilcox (anthony hopkins), and his frail wife, ruth (venessa redgrave), and their children; and of an unhappily marrid young bank clerk, leonard bast (sam west), whom the schlegel sister befriend. these three families are in complete contrast to each other .
margaret and helen are idealistic, independent and highly educated. the wilcoxes are uncultured and utterly conventional. leonard bast is poor and underprivileged, but with intellectual aspirations. unexpectedly, when mrs. wilcox dies, mr. wilcox proposes to and is accepted by margaret schlegel. her sister helen is shattered by this marriage, and in reaction to it, turns to leonard bast. the story has become a tangle of opposites, and through the agency of mr. wilcox's son charles (james wilby), it turns to tragedy. but in the end, thanks to the moral strength of margaret, who believes that opposites can meet, that different kinds of people can connect, there is a resolution that is almost a triumph.
