Overview

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.

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