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The Bostonians, Merchant Ivory Productions ; produced by Ismail Merchant ; screenplay, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; directed by James Ivory

Label
The Bostonians, Merchant Ivory Productions ; produced by Ismail Merchant ; screenplay, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; directed by James Ivory
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: Not rated
Main title
The Bostonians
Oclc number
52960129
Responsibility statement
Merchant Ivory Productions ; produced by Ismail Merchant ; screenplay, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; directed by James Ivory
Runtime
122
Series statement
Criterion Collection. The Merchant Ivory collection
Summary
Olive Chancellor, a 19th-century suffragette, takes on the education of Verena Tarrant, a faith healer's daughter with the gift of oratory. Olive hopes to use Verena's gift for the feminist cause; but she soon finds that Verena's become involved in a love triangle with Basil Ransom, a young lawyer from Mississippi who's strongly opposed to the feminists in Boston
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Classification
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