Great Britain

Directed and Produced by the highly successful team of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, 'The Bostonians' is a story of women in love and women loving; a story told against a backdrop of images that brilliantly captures the lives and times of 19th Century America. Vanessa Redgrave plays Olive, a shy but militant New England suffragette; Christopher Reeve plays Basil, an arrogant opportunist and Madeleine Potter stars as Verena, the girl who must finally choose between them. "...a nail-biting cliff-hanger..." Evening Standard. Two 1985 Oscar Nominations