A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film directed by James
Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. It is written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala,
who adapted E. M. Forster's 1908 novel A Room with a View. Set in England
and Italy, it is about a young woman named Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham
Carter) in the final throes of the restrictive and repressed culture of
Edwardian England and her developing love for a free-spirited young man,
George Emerson (Julian Sands). Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Day-
Lewis, Judi Dench and Simon Callow feature in supporting roles. The film
closely follows the novel by the use of chapter titles to distinguish thematic
segments.