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Name: Washington Square
Released: 1997-10-5
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Ben Chaplin, Maggie Smith, Judith Ivey

Washington Square

PG
1h 56m
1997

81%

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Riveting performances from an all-star cast highlight this passionate tale of a young heiress who must choose between love or money! Jennifer Jason Leigh is Catherine, a lonely young woman in search of happiness ... until she is swept off her feet by the handsome Morris Townsend (Ben Chaplin). Suspicious of the young man's true intentions, however, her controlling father (Albert Finney) threatens to disown Catherine if she follows her heart and marries against his wishes!

Director:

Agnieszka Holland

Producer:

Roger Birnbaum, Julie Bergman Sender

Writer:

Carol Doyle

Cast:

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Ben Chaplin, Maggie Smith, Judith Ivey

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

81%

Reviews

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

Marya E. Gates

Leigh plays the role Catherine Sloper with a repressed ferocity and has great chemistry with Chaplin.

February 13, 2024

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Combustible Celluloid

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Not even the usually twinkle-eyed Maggie Smith, here playing Catherine's aunt, can buoy the material.

January 18, 2019

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The New York Review of Books

Louis Menand

If you are going to have an appealing Townsend you may as well have a distinctive Catherine. When they are sitting side by side playing piano duets, or kissing passionately in the parlor while the doctor is out, they make believable lovers.

Holland's passionate version may be truer to James. He'd be startled by its earthiness, but he'd recognize these bruised, complex hearts as his own.