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  • Starring: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave
  • Summary: A love triangle between Boston suffragist Olive Chancellor (Redgrave), her protegée Verena Tarrant (Potter), and southern lawyer Basil Ransom (Reeve).

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 2 out of 10
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Michael Blowen
    100
    The filmmaking team of director James Ivory, screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and producer Ismail Merchant, remained loyal to James, assembled a brilliant cast and created one of the best films of the year. [10 Aug 1984]
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  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    50
    Elegant, stylish, and ultimately boring adaptation of the James novel.
  3. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Schickel
    30
    Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay is less a response to its source than a careful college outline of it.

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