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FILM OF THE DAY.(Movie Review)

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20050816
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Byline: YVETTE HUDDLESTON

Howards End

FilmFour, 6pm .

THE Merchant Ivory team's love affair with E.M. Forster reaped rich rewards once again with this wonderful adaptation of the author's most complex novel.

The lives of bright, liberal-minded Edwardian sisters Emma Thompson (pictured) and Helena Bonham Carter are irrevocably changed after they meet the snooty Wilcox family, headed by sweet Vanessa Redgrave and her tight-lipped husband Anthony Hopkins. The fragile Redgrave becomes particularly fond of Thompson and when she dies, she leaves her family's country ...

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