His notions are more platonic and idealistic.
Clive is not much interested in the physical expression of love he thinks it will "lower" them. At first Maurice is shocked and repelled by what his friend says, but later that night he climbs in the window to give him a quick, passionate kiss and whisper "I love you."įrom the first, their ideas about love are opposite.
The man he loves is Maurice ( James Wilby), also well-born, who may go into the stock market. The man declaring his love is Clive ( Hugh Grant), an aristocrat who can look forward to a lifetime of wealth, privilege and perhaps public office. At Cambridge, two undergraduates become close friends, and then one day in a moment of risk, one tells the other that he loves him. The story takes place in the years before World War I, when homosexuality was outlawed in Britain and being exposed meant disgrace and ruin.
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