Overview
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.
Cast
- Emma Thompson as Margaret Schlegel
- Helena Bonham Carter as Helen Schlegel
- Anthony Hopkins as Henry J. Wilcox
- Samuel West as Leonard Bast
- Vanessa Redgrave as Ruth Wilcox
- Adrian Ross Magenty as Tibby Schlegel
- Prunella Scales as Aunt Juley
- James Wilby as Charles Wilcox
- Joseph Bennett as Paul Wilcox
- Jo Kendall as Annie