![]() ![]() Her late husband's family is only too glad to see her off, since they find her rather too provincial for their upper-class tastes. The rich and recently widowed Lilia Herriton (Helen Mirren) goes on a three-month Italian holiday to recover from her loss. Though it closely follows the novel-written after Forster's first trip to Italy with his mother, when he was just twenty-six-much has been lost in the translation. WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD, unfortunately, ran a very distant second. The Merchant-Ivory production of HOWARDS END was a tremendous critical and commercial success, earning nine Oscar nominationsĪnd taking in over $25 million at the box-office. ![]() In the wake of A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984), A ROOM WITH A VIEW (1985) and MAURICE (1987), two more screen adaptations of novels by E.M. ![]()
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