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A Passage to India

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A Passage to India
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PG,2hrs 43min
Genres:
Drama,Action
Released:
January 1, 1984
Director:
David Lean
Distributor:
Columbia TriStar
Starring:
Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft  ...more
Synopsis: A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground cinematically, but remains an exquisitely assembled harkback to such earlier Lean epics as Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter. Based on the novel by E. M. Forster, the film is set in colonial India in 1924. Adela Quested (Judy Davis), a sheltered, well-educated British woman, arrives in the town of Chandrapore, where she hopes to experience "the real India". Here she meets and befriends ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
David Lean returned to the screen after a self-imposed absence of 14 years with this vivid, well-directed adaptation of the Forster classic. The director has slightly altered the focus of the novel, rendering its key event in a somewhat less ambiguous light, but, in general, stays faithful to its tale of clashing cultures. Lean perfectly captures Forster's satire of the smug insularity and poisonous ... Full Review
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Judy Davis
Adela Quested
Victor Banerjee
Dr. Aziz
Peggy Ashcroft
Mrs. Moore
James Fox
Richard Fielding
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