Maurice

Following the enormous success of A ROOM WITH A VIEW, the producer-director team of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory undertook another E.M. Forster adaptation, MAURICE, the story of a young man's homosexual awakening. Maurice Hall (James Wilby) is a wide-eyed Cambridge underclassman in 1910 where his elder classmates espouse the glories of classical civilization. Maurice and Clive Durham (Hugh Grant), an aristocratic music student, grow increasingly closer, until one day Clive tells Maurice that he loves him. Confused, Maurice initially rebuffs him and then confesses his love, too, and attempts to consummate it physically. This time Clive is reticent. They remain in...