“From the novel by Henry James”
Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Charlotte Stant, is his lover. She and Amerigo keep this secret from Maggie, so Maggie interests her widowed father in Charlotte, who is happy with the match because she wants to be close to Amerigo. Charlotte desires him, the lovers risk discovery, Amerigo longs for Italy, Maggie wants to spare her father's pain, and Adam wants to return to America to build a museum. Amidst lies and artifice, what fate awaits adulterers?
James Ivory
Ismail Merchant
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Tony Pierce-Roberts
Richard Robbins
Kate Beckinsale
Maggie Verver
Uma Thurman
Charlotte Stant
Jeremy Northam
Prince Amerigo
Nick Nolte
Adam Verver
Anjelica Huston
Fanny Assingham
James Fox
Colonel Bob Assingham
Madeleine Potter
Lady Castledean
Nicholas Day
Lord Castledean
Peter Eyre
A.R. Jarvis, Shopkeeper
Nickolas Grace
Lecturer
Robin Hart
Mr. Blint
Daniel Byam Shaw
Principino at Five Years
... and 31 more
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Merchant Ivory Productions