Maurice
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Universal acclaim- based on 4 Ratings
- 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
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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]
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80Maurice'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]
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80Rich in atmosphere, its leisurely pace dwells on repressed passions in Edwardian society.
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60The dissection of Edwardian repression never gets beyond the dutiful, tasteful obviousness of a BBC miniseries.
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