Howards End

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Emma Thompson Margaret Schlegel

Helena Bonham Carter Helen Schlegel

Anthony Hopkins Henry J. Wilcox

Samuel West Leonard Bast

Vanessa Redgrave Ruth Wilcox