Howards End

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You can watch Howards End (1992) on Kanopy with a participating library card.

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

Forget the typical period piece stiffness for a sweeping, intellectual collision between old money and new ideals. This portrait of Edwardian social shifts breathes through quiet glances and the fierce, moral tug-of-war between two very different families.

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