Details

Release year: 1987

Storyline

Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.

Top credits

Directors

James Ivory

Writers

Cast

James Wilby — Maurice Hall
Rupert Graves — Alec Scudder
Hugh Grant — Clive Durham
Denholm Elliott — Doctor Barry

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• In the DVD extras, Hugh Grant says that because he and James Wilby already knew each other from appearing in Privileged (1982) together, they were able to practice their scenes together at Grant's house the night before Wilby's audition. Grant says that he remembers it "being a surprise to my banker brother when he came home and found me kissing James Wilby in the front room."

• James Wilby recalls on the DVD extras that there were no rehearsals at all for the movie, only two reads-through, and then the start of filming.

• In the DVD extras, James Wilby remembers that the movie's final scene, a love scene between his character (Maurice) and Rupert Graves' character (Scudder) was shot on the fourth day of filming, and because of the complete lack of rehearsal time, he and Graves had barely even met beforehand.