The Golden Bowl Movie Review 2000

Beautiful but bloodless Merchant/Ivory adaptation of Henry James' complex 1904 novel set in turn-of-the-century London. Wealthy American aesthete Adam Verver (Nolte) dotes on his only daughter, Maggie (Beckinsale), and even buys her a husband--an impoverished Italian aristocrat, Prince Amerigo (a miscast Northam), whom she loves. But, unknown to both Ververs, the prince and Maggie's best friend, the equally poor Charlotte (Thurman), had a long ago affair that gets rekindled, even though Charlotte has become the wife of Adam. A studied menage a quartre where just what anyone knows (or suspects) is never made clear.

Distribution

CinemaNow, 4553 Glencoe Ave., Ste. 200, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, URL: http://www.cinemanow.com, Remarks: Formerly known as Lions Gate Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 130 minutes.
Originally from British, United States, French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Producers: Merchant Ivory, London, Marriage, Dads, Books to Film: Henry James, Period Piece: 1900s, Romantic Triangles, Adultery

Screenplay

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Cast

Nick Nolte, Uma Thurman, Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Northam, Anjelica Huston, James Fox, Madeleine Potter, Peter Eyre

Cinematography

Tony Pierce-Roberts

Director

James Ivory

Music

Richard Robbins

Other

David Stephenson, John David Allen, Lucy Richardson, Gianni Giovagnoni, John Bright, Andrew Sanders

Producer

Ismail Merchant, Merchant-Ivory Productions, TF-1 Films, Lions Gate Films