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.
Emma Thompson
Helena Bonham Carter
Anthony Hopkins
Samuel West
Vanessa Redgrave
Adrian Ross Magenty
Prunella Scales
James Wilby
Joseph Bennett
Jo Kendall
Jemma Redgrave
Crispin Bonham-Carter
Ian Latimer
Siegbert Prawer
Susie Lindeman
Nicola Duffett
Mark Tandy
Andrew St. Clair
Anne Lambton
Emma Godfrey
Duncan Brown
Iain Kelly
Atalanta White
Gerald Paris
Allie Byrne
Sally Geoghegan
Paula Stockbridge
Bridget Duvall
Lucy Freeman
Harriet Stewart
Tina Leslie
Mark Payton
Delaney Davidson
Mary McWilliams
Barbara Hicks
Rodney Rymell
Luke Parry
Antony Gilding
Peter Cellier
Patricia Lawrence
Margery Mason
Jim Bowden
Alan James
Jocelyn Cobb
Peter Darling
Terence Sach
Brian Lipson
Mary Nash
Barr Heckstall-Smith
Simon Callow