Passage to India

Starring: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee
Director: David Lean
Genre: Drama
Rated: PG
Running Time: 164 mins

This ambitious film, adapted from the E.M. Forster novel by David Lean, was nominated for 11 academy awards in 1984. It's a sweeping epic, with a huge cast of extras, set in British Colonial India in the 1920s.

A young English woman travels to India to marry her fiance, while there she meets an Indian Moslem physician. While taking a day trip to explore the Marabar Caves, something happens and the Indian physician is accused of attempting a violent assault on the young woman.

Review:
"Passage to India" takes the viewer right into the heart of India, to time now lost in progress. Injustice reigns and expressions tell a story. A timeless classic.