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The Golden Bowl is a american film of genre Drama directed by James Ivory released in USA on 14 may 2000 with Kate Beckinsale
The Golden Bowl (2000)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 14 may 2000
Length 2h6
Directed by James Ivory
OriginUSA
Themes Films about sexuality
Rating59%
The Golden Bowl is a 2000 drama film directed by James Ivory. The screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is based on the 1904 novel of the same name by Henry James, who considered the work his masterpiece.
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Dignified but impoverished aristocrat Prince Amerigo, whose illustrious Italian family occupies the decaying Palazzo Ugolini in Florence, is engaged to American socialite Maggie Verver. She shares an extremely close relationship with her millionaire father Adam, a retired widowed tycoon living in England who intends to finance the construction of a museum to house his invaluable collection of art and antiquities in an American city.Actors
Kate Beckinsale
(Maggie Verver)
James Fox
(Colonel Bob Assingham)
Anjelica Huston
(Fanny Assingham)
Nick Nolte
(Adam Verver)
Jeremy Northam
(Prince Amerigo)
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