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Maurice Director: James Ivory Cast: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott

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  • DVD Release Date: 02/24/2004
  • Original Release: 1987
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 16,341

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Includes over 30-minutes of deleted scenes, with audio commentary by director James Ivory; video interviews with Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, actors James Wilby, Hugh Grant and Rupert Graves, and screenwriter Kit Hesketh-Harvey; original theatrical trailer.

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Scene Index

Side #1 -- Disc 1
1. Opening Credits/"The Sacred Mystery of Sex" [6:19]
2. Michaelmas Term, 1909, Cambridge [3:13]
3. Meeting Clive Durham [4:09]
4. "The Unspeakable Vice of the Greeks" [5:28]
5. "Your Father Always Went to Church" [1:33]
6. First Embrace [6:38]
7. "Can't You Kiss Me?" [4:32]
8. Maurice Returns Home [2:01]
9. Pendersleigh Park, 1910 [5:33]
10. The City, 1911 [2:56]
11. Viscount Risley Arrested [6:29]
12. Clive Breaks Down [6:27]
13. Durham Visits Greece [2:25]
14. "Can the Leopard Change its Spots?" [7:02]
15. Maurice and Ada [2:00]
16. "Clive Durham Is to Be Married" [5:54]
17. A Visit With Dr. Barry [4:34]
18. Pendersleigh, Autumn, 1913 [12:34]
19. Maurice Hypnotized [4:00]
20. Alec Scudder [10:25]
21. Cricket Match [6:07]
22. A Second Visit With the Dr. Lasker-Jones [3:07]
23. Scudder Visits London [11:11]
24. Southampton Sendoff [7:56]
25. The Boathouse [4:30]
26. End Credits [2:38]

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Editorial Reviews

Director James Ivory brings his subdued, "Masterpiece Theater" style to a forbidden subject -- homosexual love. Maurice is based on E.M. Forster's suppressed 1914 novel that was held back from publication until after his death. The film takes place at Cambridge, before World War I, when homosexuality was outlawed in Great Britain. Clive (Hugh Grant), an aristocratic Englishman with a life of privilege, suddenly shocks his close friend Maurice (James Wilby) by declaring his love for him. Maurice is initially stunned by the pronouncement, but in the end finds himself giving Clive a passionate kiss and telling him that he loves him as well. Clive, in the stiff-upper-lip British manner, considers their love to be more of an intellectual concept, but Maurice becomes passionate about the affair. Clive, afraid of being exposed as a homosexual, backs off and breaks up with Maurice for marriage, family, and politics. Maurice is crestfallen, but then he has a passionate affair with Clive's gamekeeper, Scudder (Rupert Graves), and Maurice and Scudder decide to risk their reputations by openly living together as lovers. Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

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Excellent Movieby Anonymous

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December 27, 2008: I enjoyed this movie as it shows the struggle of homosexuality and straight life given the pierod of time this movie takes place. For those who love great endings, this is a movie for you.

Moving and well-adaptedby Ruadhan_McElroy

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October 31, 2008: Well adapted from the EM Forster novel to screen, Maurice is a well-done work about a man realises his homosexuality in college in 1910. At first confused, then enthralled within the arms of his beloved, he is soon afterward expelled from school. Following the disgrace of a college acquaintance, his lover retreats to a "normal" married life. After a passage of time, Maurice, now heartbroken, seeks the aid of doctors to "fix" him, only to realise he doesn't want to be.

I read the book first and fully engrossed in it during a trip to Chicago. I was intrigued, but wary, to discover a film version on the shelf of my local video rental. Though this is a UK production and not an "Hollywood" one, I still don't typically trust film adaptations of beloved novels, usually some part or another of the book's integrity winds up being compromised in the screenplay adaptation, even if only small ones made for time constraints; all too often, the results of clipping a scene here or there leaves some points muddled or or simply lacklustre. This one, though, is one of those splendid gems that truly does do the original text justice, even with small scenes omitted. The settings and costuming were absolutely lovely and the actors carried the look and dignity of their characters very well.

All in all, an instant classic I highly recommend to any-one who has loved the book.

I Also Recommend: Wilde, Maurice.


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