Academy Awards, USA 1988
| Nominee Oscar | Best Costume Design Jenny Beavan John Bright |
Cinecom Pictures
Directed by James Ivory
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Cohen Media Group)
James Wilby is Maurice, a student at Cambridge in the early 20th century. He discovers he is gay and starts a torrid love affair with fellow student Hugh Grant. They successfully hide it from the rest of the college, but his grades suffer and he is kicked out. He meets up with Grant at his summer estate to resume their relationship. However, Grant casts him off and marries a local socialite. Wilby takes up with the groundskeeper instead, and together they plot to immigrate to Argentina where homosexuality is legal. Torrid melodrama, with impeccable period detail in the usual Merchant-Ivory style.
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