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The Bostonians (film)
1984
The Bostonians is a 1984 romantic drama period film directed by James Ivory. The screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is based on the 1886 American novel The Bostonians by Henry James. The film stars Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Madeleine Potter, and Jessica Tandy .
"The Bostonians" is a novel with a lot of asides, and hundreds of pages of hints. We can summarize it boldly: It is about a sweet and somewhat inconsequential young woman who has inspired crushes in two of her admirers. One of her would-be lovers is a straight-spoken lawyer from the South, who wants to sweep her off her feet and make her his wife.
Based on Henry James' novel, Merchant-Ivory's The Bostonians tells the story of Olive Chancellor, a 19th-century Boston woman dedicated to the suffrage movement who takes Verena Tarrant,...
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- Drama
- James Ivory
The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi ; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a ...
- Henry James
- 1886
The Bostonians. 1984 · 2 hr 3 min. TV-PG. Drama · Romance. An immersive 19th century tale of a Women’s Movement mentor who sees her latest prodigy become a romantic object of affection by her Southern cousin. Subtitles: English. Starring: Christopher Reeve Vanessa Redgrave Jessica Tandy Madeleine Potter Linda Hunt. Directed by: James Ivory.
- James Ivory
- January 1, 1984
- 122 min
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Jan 31, 2019 · A new 4K restoration of a Merchant Ivory classic.Boston, 1876: At a Women's Movement meeting, fiercely independent Olive (Vanessa Redgrave) becomes mentor to...
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