FILM · 1986 · UK
A Room with a View
- Directed by
- James Ivory
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Studio
- Goldcrest Films International, Merchant Ivory Productions
23 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
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All facts (23)
- #001
A Room with a View was the first feature film for both Helena Bonham Carter (Lucy Honeychurch) and Rupert Graves (Freddy Honeychurch).
- #002
In a 1986 BBC interview, Sir Daniel Day-Lewis described his character as "the sort of person you imagine you could be in your worst nightmares."
- #003
As the campaign for Oscar® nominations moved toward placing trade advertisements, Sir Daniel Day-Lewis stated that he was not interested in campaigning for an Oscar® nomination. As a result, the production company focused on promoting Denholm Elliott in the supporting actor category. Elliott was willing to take part in the process and ultimately earned the Oscar® nomination.
- #004
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and this film opened in New York City on the same day, 7 March 1986. Sir Daniel Day-Lewis had prominent and very different roles in both: in this film he played a repressed, snobbish upper-class Edwardian man, while in Laundrette he played a working-class gay former skinhead who falls in love with an ambitious Pakistani businessman in Thatcher's London. When American critics saw Day-Lewis, then almost unknown in the US, in two different roles on the same day, many (including Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times and Sheila Benson of the LA Times) heaped praise on the range his portrayal of such different characters revealed.
- #005
Helena Bonham Carter was still living with her family when she made this film. In fact, despite being a successful actress, she continued to live at home with her family after she passed the age of thirty.
- #006
Not only were they producers, Ismail Merchant and James Ivory were lovers, or whatever applied to a gay married couple in 1985. Merchant would later reveal that they had been in a committed relationship for 44 years.
- #007
In the book, Lucy kisses George in a field full of violets, but it was the wrong season for filming, so only a plain barley field was used.
- #008
During a discussion of filmmaking with Gus Van Sant at the Oregon Sesquicentennial Film Festival, James Ivory stated that he chose to make this film because he wanted to return to Italy.
- #009
The actors Patrick Godfrey (Mr. Eager, the Anglican chaplain in Florence) and Amanda Walker (the Cockney Signora) married in 1960 and remained married until his death in 2026. The two share no scenes in this film.
- #010
Rupert Everett turned down the role of Cecil Vyse.
- #011
For his next project, Maurice (1987), also adapted from an E. M. Forster novel, James Ivory reunited with Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Helena Bonham Carter, Simon Callow, Patrick Godfrey, James Wilby and Kitty Aldridge.
- #012
A Room with a View holds a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 37 critic reviews.
- #013
A Room with a View contains Denholm Elliott's only Oscar®-nominated performance.
- #014
The cast of A Room with a View includes three Oscar® winners — Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Daniel Day-Lewis and Dame Judi Dench — and three Oscar® nominees: Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott and Richard Robbins.
- #015
George's [Julian Sands] confession to Lucy [Helena Bonham Carter] in A Room with a View is featured in Dream Theater's song "Space-Dye Vest."
- #016
Daniel Day-Lewis's father was named Cecil, the same name as his character in A Room with a View. Cecil Day-Lewis served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 to 1972.
- #017
A Room with a View is part of the Criterion Collection as spine number 775.
- #018
Helena Bonham Carter and Dame Maggie Smith were reunited as rivals in the Harry Potter film series.
- #019
Like the later E. M. Forster adaptation Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), which also starred Helena Bonham Carter and Rupert Graves, this E. M. Forster adaptation, A Room with a View, features settings in Italy.
- #020
A Room with a View was Margaret Ward's final film.
- #021
Lars Wangen first saw A Room with a View at school; in an interview with The Guardian he called it a masterpiece.
- #022
The re-release of A Room with a View in Spain took place in only three cinemas: in Madrid (Conde Duque, Verdi) and Barcelona (Verdi). The film was shown with subtitles for only one day.
- #023
A Room with a View was nominated for eight Oscars and won three of them.
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