A Room with a View is a 1985 satirical drama from director James Ivory and starring Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Judi Dench, and Daniel Day-Lewis in a film based on the novel of the same name by E.M. Forster. Helena Bonham Carter stars as Lucy Honeychurch, a young woman who goes on holiday in Italy with her cousin and chaperone. Lucy comes from a strict English upbringing, a member of the upper-class in the highly conservative Edwardian culture of early 1900s England. However, in Italy she becomes exposed to the free-spirited, forward-thinking lifestyle that would soon replace the Victorian standards of old England. Lucy becomes involved in two romances-one with a passionate and emotionally free young man named George Emerson, and another with an uptight and reserved man named Cecil Vyse (Day-Lewis), who offers her no passion but a respectable marriage. In A Room with a View, Lucy Honeychurch grapples with maturity as she must choose between her family's old ways and the passion and possibilities of the new era.moreless