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DVD
Florence, Italy, 1912. Lucy Honeychurch is eager for adventure, but finds herself in a safe haven of English tourists, spinsters and clergymen. More dangerously, she makes the acquaintance of the socialist Mr. Emerson and his son George. Sparks fly between Lucy and George, but Lucy does her best to ignore them. After an astute observer purposefully mistranslates her request for “the good men” (clergymen) and sends her into the arms of "a good man," Lucy receives a passionate kiss from George in the middle of a field of poppies.

Profoundly shocked, but excited, Lucy is whisked away to Rome by her concerned chaperone, where she meets the most suitable Cecil Vyse. Back in England, George reappears as Lucy is on the brink of marriage to Cecil, declaring his love, determined to stop the wedding. How will Lucy choose between them? Or is she destined for a life of spinsterhood?

This fresh, poignant adaptation of E.M. Forster’s classic stars Elaine Cassidy (The Others), Laurence Fox (Inspector Lewis) and Rafe Spall (Dracula, Hot Fuzz) as George.

Special DVD features include: a link to the Masterpiece Web site; and closed captions.    

On one DVD5 disc.  Region coding: Region 1.  Audio: Dolby stereo.  Screen format: 16:9 Anamorphic.

Book
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson--who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist--Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor, and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion. The enduring delight of this tale of romantic intrigue is rooted in Forster's colorful characters, including outrageous spinsters, pompous clergymen and outspoken patriots. Written in 1908, A Room With A View is one of E.M. Forster's earliest and most celebrated works.