Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Charlotte Stant, is his lover. She and Amerigo keep this secret from Maggie, so Maggie interests her widowed father in Charlotte, who is happy with the match because she wants to be close to Amerigo. Charlotte desires him, the lovers risk discovery, Amerigo longs for Italy, Maggie wants to spare her father's pain, and Adam wants to return to America to build a museum. Amidst lies and artifice, what fate awaits adulterers?

• DirectorJames Ivory
• Release14 May 2000
• Genre
  Romance / Drama
• Duration2h 10m
• Budget$15,000,000
• Revenue$5,753,678
• Rate
  

  6.0
  62 reviews
• Productions

  TF1 International, Merchant Ivory Productions