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A Passage to India
Directed by
David Lean
PG
1985
2h 43m
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77%
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6.8
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Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
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Cast of A Passage to India
Judy Davis
Adela Quested
Victor Banerjee
Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed
Peggy Ashcroft
Mrs. Moore
James Fox
Richard Fielding
Alec Guinness
Professor Godbole
Nigel Havers
Ronny Heaslop
Richard Wilson
Mr. Turton
Antonia Pemberton
Mrs. Turton
Michael Culver
Major McBryde
Art Malik
Mahmoud Ali
Saeed Jaffrey
Hamidullah
Clive Swift
Major Callendar
Ann Firbank
Mrs. Callendar
Roshan Seth
Amritrao
Sandra Hotz
Stella
Rashid Karapiet
Das
H.S. Krishnamurthy
Hassan
Ishaq Bux
Selim
Moti Makan
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Mohammed Ashiq
Haq
A Passage to India Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The novel wants to be about unresolvability; the movie doesn't, and isn't. What's remarkable about the film is how two such different temperaments as Forster's and Lean's could come together.
Video Review
Molly Haskell
David Lean's adaptation of E.M. For- ster's great Anglo-Indian novel is, for a great deal of its 2 1/2-hours running time, an exceptionally fine and civilized movie, almost a great one.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
By the foreseeable conclusion, it's too late to save the project from its place amongst well-intentioned, immensely mediocre moviemaking.
Sojourner
Susan Shapiro
Certainly it is important to have films which document historical oppression. But this can - and should - be accomplished in a way that does not pit one oppressed group against another.
The New York Review of Books
Noel Annan
The spirit of the book has vanished and its strange music cannot be heard. The movie is lovely but earthbound.
Apollo Guide
Brian Webster
Regardless of what one thinks of David Lean and his old fashioned style, the results here - save perhaps for the casting of Alec Guinness as a Hindu professor - are exquisite.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
Lean's visually appealing film frequently connects as a social satire and a mystical melodrama of transgressors looking for footholds in psychically threatening territory.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Lean isn't on his A-game here, but the film isn't bad.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Lean's swan song is an intelligent adaptation of Forster's complex novel about racil prejudice and sexual repression, flaunting wonderful perfromances from the two leads, Judy Davis and particularly Dame Peggy Ashcroft.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Steve Crum
Epic, briliantly photographed, but slow David Lean drama.
TV Guide
Lean does an excellent job of conveying the repressive nature of British society captured in the novel.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
David Lean's studied, plodding, overanalytic direction manages to kill most of the meaning in E.M. Forster's haunting novel of cultural collision in colonial India.
Variety
Variety Staff
An impeccably faithful, beautifully played and occasionally languorous adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic novel.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Rob Thomas
Maybe a little too stately, but still a powerful and beautiful film.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Forster's novel is one of the literary landmarks of this century, and now David Lean has made it into one of the greatest screen adaptations I have ever seen.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The film is very much 'a full theatrical meal,' and one that conveys a lot of 'the multiplicity of life' one seldom sees on the screen these days.
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