A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
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Emma ThompsonMargaret Schlegel
Helena Bonham CarterHelen Schlegel
Anthony HopkinsHenry J. Wilcox
Samuel WestLeonard Bast
Vanessa RedgraveRuth Wilcox
Adrian Ross MagentyTibby Schlegel
Prunella ScalesAunt Juley
James WilbyCharles Wilcox
Joseph BennettPaul Wilcox
Jo KendallAnnie
Jemma RedgraveEvie Wilcox
Crispin Bonham-CarterAlbert Fussell
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Susie LindemanDolly Wilcox
Nicola DuffettJackie
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