Off to the sensuous landscape of Florence for her horizon-broadening tour, Lucy, a perfectly proper young Edwardian lady, is chaperoned by her even more proper Aunt Charlotte. At the merest hint of scandal - Lucy is kissed by an improper suitor - Charlotte whisks her back to the serene English countryside, where she is betrothed to a supposedly suitable gentleman, insufferably in love with himself.
Maggie Smith (Charlotte Bartlett); Helena Bonham Carter (Lucy Honeychurch); Denholm Elliott (Mr. Emerson); Julian Sands (George Emerson); Simon Callow (Reverend Arthur Beebe); Patrick Godfrey (Reverend Eager); Judi Dench (Eleanor Lavish); Fabia Drake (Miss Catharine Alan); Joan Henley (Miss Teresa Alan); Amanda Walker (Cockney Signora); Daniel Day-Lewis (Cecil Vyse); Maria Britneva (Mrs. Vyse); Rosemary Leach (Mrs. Marian Honeychurch); Rupert Graves (Freddy Honeychurch); Peter Cellier (Sir Harry Otway). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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