Top billed cast

1. 

   Helena Bonham Carter

   Lucy Honeychurch

2. 

   Julian Sands

   George Emerson

3. 

   Maggie Smith

   Charlotte Bartlett

4. 

   Denholm Elliott

   Mr. Emerson

5. 

   Daniel Day-Lewis

   Cecil Vyse

6. 

   Simon Callow

   The Reverend Mr. Beebe

7. 

   Rosemary Leach

   Mrs. Honeychurch

8. 

   Rupert Graves

   Freddy Honeychurch

9. 

   Patrick Godfrey

   The Reverend Mr. Eager

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-09-14

You can just imagine his delight when Simon Callow was told that not only would get to don some ecclesiastical cloth here, but he’d also get to romp around the lake naked with Julian Sands and Rupert Graves - thus taking part in a scene that has become iconic for just about every gay film maker in the history of last forty years! The rest of this doesn’t quite compare, but is still a charmingly characterful assessment of the idle middle-class at play in early 20th century Firenze. There’s a bit of disgruntlement at the lodgings of “Charlotte” (Maggie Smith) and her cousin “Lucy” ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$3,000,000.00

Revenue
$20,966,644.00

Keywords

• based on novel or book
• england
• tennis
• kiss
• surrey
• bed and breakfast (b&b)
• florence, italy
• love
• skinny dipping
• spinster
• edwardian england
• 1900s