

A Room with a View
An Edwardian Romance
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3M
- Box office
- $21M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- england
- tennis
- kiss
- surrey
- bed and breakfast (b&b)
- florence, italy
- love
- skinny dipping
- spinster
- edwardian england
- 1900s
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR7 Mar 1986
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG11 Apr 1986
- PhysicalPGDVD19 Mar 2001
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical10 Jul 1986
- PremierePGBritish Film Festival11 Nov 2024
FinlandFI
- TheatricalS26 Sept 1986
FranceFR
- Theatrical19 Nov 1986
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1227 Nov 1986
ItalyIT
- Theatrical3 Oct 1986
JapanJP
- TheatricalR15+25 Jul 1987
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical1524 Jun 1989
- Theatrical15재개봉11 Jun 2020
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1117 Apr 1987
TaiwanTW
- Theatrical26 Jun 1987
- Theatrical40 週年 4K 數位修復版27 Nov 2026
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A Room with a View was released on 7 March 1986.
Audience reviews
2- F5/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
3/11/2024
**A film that seems to be more concerned with criticizing the manners of the 19th century than with telling us a good story.** The film is set in the early years of the 20th century and is a romantic story that begins when a young British girl stays in a guesthouse in Florence among other English tourists. The room she received does not have a view over the River Arno, so she agrees to exchange with a young man, w…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
9/14/2025
You can just imagine his delight when Simon Callow was told that not only would get to don some ecclesiastical cloth here, but he’d also get to romp around the lake naked with Julian Sands and Rupert Graves - thus taking part in a scene that has become iconic for just about every gay film maker in the history of last forty years! The rest of this doesn’t quite compare, but is still a charmingly characterful assessmen…
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