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- 1984
- Not Rated
- Almi Pictures
- 2 h 2 m
- 1984
- Not Rated
- Almi Pictures
- 2 h 2 m
Summary A love triangle between Boston suffragist Olive Chancellor (Redgrave), her protegée Verena Tarrant (Potter), and southern lawyer Basil Ransom (Reeve).
Directed By: James Ivory
Written By: Henry James, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- 1984
- Not Rated
- Almi Pictures
- 2 h 2 m
- 1984
- Not Rated
- Almi Pictures
- 2 h 2 m
The Bostonians
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Summary A love triangle between Boston suffragist Olive Chancellor (Redgrave), her protegée Verena Tarrant (Potter), and southern lawyer Basil Ransom (Reeve).
Directed By: James Ivory
Written By: Henry James, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
59
60% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
59
60% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
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]
By the end there isn't anyone to cheer for, except the makers of this thoughtful and absorbing piece of work. [02 Aug 1984]
The moral ambiguity of James's novel has been skillfully captured in the film, as has its remarkable modernity.
Intelligent and subtle.
The Bostonians, from the novel by Henry James, is the story of their relationship, one of the strangest in literature. Unfortunately, that strangeness has survived the transfer to the screen less than intact, and satiric oddity has been replaced by romantic banality. Redgrave's performance - red-eyed, quivering, opalescent - is peerless, the one incontrovertible reason to see the film. [23 Nov 1984]
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay is less a response to its source than a careful college outline of it.
You get the plot, all right, but that's all you get - no body, no texture, no rhythm, no shading.
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Production Company
Merchant Ivory Productions,
WGBH,
Rediffusion,
Almi Entertainment Finance Corporation
Release Date Aug 2, 1984
Duration 2 h 2 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline A BEAUTIFUL FILM . . . An intimate and exquisite probe of the feminist heart. [Australia Theatrical]
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
