A Room with a View (1986) on Netflix
In Florence, Lucy Honeychurch and her chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find their rooms lack the promised view of the Arno. Fellow guests Mr. Emerson and his son George offer to swap.
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On holiday in Florence, Lucy Honeychurch and her older cousin and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett take rooms at the Pensione Bertolini. Their promised view of the River Arno is missing. Among the other English guests are the Reverend Mr. Beebe, the Misses Alan, the novelist Eleanor Lavish, and Mr. Emerson with his son George. The Emersons, learning of the disappointment, offer to trade rooms. Charlotte calls the offer indelicate, so Mr. Beebe steps in and the exchange is made.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Room with a View (1986)
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- E. M. Forster turned down $25,000 from 20th Century Fox in 1946 for the film rights to A Room with a View because he did not hold cinema in high regard, although the studio was willing to pay him even more.
- Foxwold House near Chiddingstone stood in for the Honeychurch house, and an artificial pond was dug in its forest to serve as the film's "Sacred Lake". Two years later the Great Storm of 1987 destroyed the gardens and almost 80 acres of the surrounding forest.
- Producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory were turned down twice by Jake Eberts of Goldcrest Films, and only got the company's money once he had left; Eberts later admitted he had been "completely wrong" about the film.
- Judi Dench disagreed with director James Ivory while filming her supporting role as the romance novelist Eleanor Lavish, because among other things he suggested she play the character as a Scot.
- Helena Bonham Carter was eighteen and had just finished the art-house film Lady Jane when James Ivory cast her as Lucy Honeychurch, the role that became her breakthrough; Ivory said he found her "very quick, very smart, and very beautiful".
- Daniel Day-Lewis came to James Ivory's attention playing Guy Bennet in the play Another Country, and when offered the choice of George Emerson or Cecil Vyse he took the more challenging part of Cecil.
- Rupert Everett auditioned for the part of Cecil Vyse, though he would rather have played George Emerson; James Ivory thought he was not quite right for it, and Julian Sands was cast as the male lead instead.
- For the Florence scenes, Merchant Ivory had the Piazza della Signoria cleared so they could shoot there, and the Pensione Quisisana served as the Pensione Bertolini, with Villa di Maiano used for some interiors.
