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The Bostonians
Directed by
James Ivory
Not Rated
1984
2h 2m
Drama
,
Romance
6.2
81%
36%
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19th-century Boston woman dedicated to the suffrage movement, meets a faith healer's daughter, a Mississippi lawyer also has eyes for the young woman.
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Cast of The Bostonians
Christopher Reeve
Basil Ransome
Vanessa Redgrave
Olive Chancellor
Jessica Tandy
Miss Birdseye
Madeleine Potter
Verena Tarrant
Nancy Marchand
Mrs. Burrage
Wesley Addy
Dr. Tarrant
Barbara Bryne
Mrs. Tarrant
Linda Hunt
Dr. Prance
Charles McCaughan
Music Hall Policeman
Nancy New
Adeline
Jon Van Ness
Henry Burrage
Wallace Shawn
Mr. Pardon
Peter Bogyo
Mr. Gracie
Martha Farrar
Mrs. Farrinder
Dusty Maxwell
Newton Tarrant
J. Lee Morgan
Music Hall Official
De French
Patient
Maura Moynihan
Henrietta Stackpole
June Mitchell
Maid
Lee H. Doyle
Mr. Filer
Janet Cicchese
Irish Washerwoman
Scott Kradolfer
Tough Boy
Jane Manners
Maid
David Beyer
Organist
James Huston
Photographer
Timothy J. Richard
Delivery Boy
The Bostonians Ratings & Reviews
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
absorbing drama
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
[The Bostonians is] intelligent and subtle and open to the underlying tragedy of a woman who does not know what she wants, a man who does not care what he wants, and a girl who does not need what she wants.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Merchant Ivory screen adaptation of Henry James' novel is handsome, but suffers from the miscasting of Christopher Reeve and Madeleine Potter, though Vanessa Redgrave is decent.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Reeve is earnest if not entirely believable in a pivotal role, but Redgrave and Potter are excellent.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
''The Bostonians'' is, from its opening shot to last, a rare delight, a high comedy with tragic undertones, acted to passionate perfection by a cast of the best actors ever assembled by the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala team.
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
James' story is so fascinating and Redgrave so urgently fine that you can lose sight of these lapses and have an eminently satisfying time.
Variety
Variety Staff
Like the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala team's 1979 The Europeans, this is a classy adaptation of a Henry James novel.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
''The Bostonians,'' which opens today at Cinema I, unfolds elegantly but not always smoothly... But the performances, especially that of the astonishing Miss Redgrave, generate an urgency and momentum to match Mr. James's own.
The Spool
B.L. Panther
Redgrave's skill is being able to render a visibly caged interior life for Olive who is constantly living in code. There's an urgent descant to her delivery that cues us to what Olive is not saying and what she really wants to say.
Sojourner
Shane Snowdon
The women's movement as a whole is... presented in the film as the creature of a couple of reporters on the make and a handful of aristocratic Boston spinsters whose other pet causes include faith healing.
Film Inquiry
Lee Jutton
Look past the frilly costumes and posh accents of The Bostonians and you'll find a battle of the sexes that remains relevant into the twenty-first century.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A literary work with exquisite production values and a vivid portrait of class differences in Boston social life at the turn of the century.
Video Review
Molly Haskell
Ivory, working in concert with his longtime producer-partner Ismael Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, possesses an abundance of those civilized virtues we could use more of in everyday life but that are often a handicap in making movies.
Film Threat
Sabina Dana Plasse
Although the film is basic in its production and camera work, the story is not without profound depth in the concept that the battle continues to rage for women to have equal rights and freedoms with men no matter the time and place.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
There's every reason in the world to read the book, and to do it before you see the movie (so that you don't let the movie images saturate what you read). The only good reason to see the film version is Vanessa Redgrave's performance as Olive Chancellor.
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