7.8
“An intimate and exquisite probe of the feminist heart.”
The Bostonians (1984)
May 1, 19842h 2mEN
5.5
47 votes
Overview
A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.
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James IvoryWriters
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Original Language
English
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Production Companies
Merchant Ivory Productions
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CinemaSerf
6.0There's a lovely line in this otherwise unremarkable adaptation of the Henry James novel from Vanessa Redgrave who announces something along the lines of being eternally grateful for not having the vote! It did make me smile. That, sadly, is about all that did as we trudge through this stylish but turgid story of the embryonic American suffragette movement. Amidst this struggle for enfranchisement, the bright "Verena" (Madeleine Potter) is facing the affections of the more traditional "Basil" (Christopher Reeve), himself a man who she ought to have little time for. Might there be the slightest…
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