A Room with a View (1985 film)

A Room with a View
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	James Ivory
Screenplay by	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Based on	A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Produced by	Ismail Merchant
Starring	Maggie Smith Denholm Elliott Judi Dench Simon Callow Helena Bonham Carter Julian Sands Daniel Day-Lewis Fabia Drake Patrick Godfrey Rupert Graves Joan Henley Rosemary Leach
Cinematography	Tony Pierce-Roberts
Edited by	Humphrey Dixon
Music by	Richard Robbins (score) Giacomo Puccini (themes, sung by Kiri Te Kanawa)
Production companies	Merchant Ivory Productions Goldcrest Films FilmFour International
Distributed by	Curzon Film Distributors
Release dates	13 December 1985 (1985-12-13) (RCFP) 11 April 1986 (1986-04-11)
Running time	117 minutes[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Budget	£2.3 million ($3 million)[2][3]
Box office	$21 million[2]

A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. It is written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who adapted E. M. Forster's 1908 novel A Room with a View. Set in England and Italy, it is about a young woman named Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) in the final throes of the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England and her developing love for a free-spirited young man, George Emerson (Julian Sands). Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench and Simon Callow feature in supporting roles. The film closely follows the novel by the use of chapter titles to distinguish thematic segments.

A Room with a View received universal critical acclaim and was a box-office success. At the 59th Academy Awards it was nominated for eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and won three: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. It also won five British Academy Film Awards and a Golden Globe. In 1999 the British Film Institute placed A Room with a View 73rd on its list of the top 100 British films.