The Wings of the Dove
A couple with everything but money. An heiress with everything but love. A temptation no one could resist.
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- Drama
- Romance
Overview
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- london
- england
- forbidden love
- 1910s
- italy
- venice
- love triangle
- masked ball
- inheritance
- unrequited love
- gondola
- period piece
- classism
- man between two women
- dying woman
- dying young
- privileged life
- british high society
- influential aunt or uncle
- london, england
- venice, italy
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 4, 1997
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Italian
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production
- Miramax
- Cast
- Helena Bonham Carter,Linus Roache,Alison Elliott,Elizabeth McGovern,Charlotte Rampling,Alex Jennings,Michael Gambon,Ben Miles,Philip Wright,Diana Kentand 3 more
- Director
- Iain Softley
- Writer
- Hossein Amini,Henry James
- Cinematography
- Eduardo Serra
- Music
- Edward Shearmur
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- $13,692,648
- IMDb
- tt0120520