"The Bostonians"
1984
Directed by James Ivory

A Merchant/Ivory literary adaptation of the Henry James novel concerning an intriguing sexual triangle. A beautiful though innocent orator (Madeleine Potter) is caught between a stern suffragette (Vanessa Redgrave) and a repressed, upper class lawyer (Christopher Reeve). With Jessica Tandy, Linda Hunt and Wallace Shawn. Adaptation by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.  120 minutes.