Summary
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
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Cast
Emma Thompson
Margaret Schlegel
Helena Bonham Carter
Helen Schlegel
Anthony Hopkins
Henry J. Wilcox
Samuel West
Leonard Bast
Vanessa Redgrave
Ruth Wilcox
Adrian Ross Magenty
Tibby Schlegel
Prunella Scales
Aunt Juley
James Wilby
Charles Wilcox
Jemma Redgrave
Evie Wilcox
Crispin Bonham-Carter
Albert Fussell
Susie Lindeman
Dolly Wilcox
Nicola Duffett
Jacky Bast
Mark Tandy
Luncheon Guests
Anne Lambton
Luncheon Guests
Atalanta White
Maid at Howards End
Gerald Paris
Porphyrion Supervisor
Barbara Hicks
Miss Avery
Peter Cellier
Colonel Fussell
Margery Mason
Wedding Guests
Brian Lipson
Police Inspector
Simon Callow
Music and Meaning Lecturer (uncredited)