Passage to India
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Movie Review
by FAB
A Passage to India
David Lean
Columbia TriStar 12/84 DVD
PG
In 1928, Adela Quested (Judy Davis) and Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft) leave England to visit Mrs. Moore's son Ronny (Nigel Havers) in India. He is the civil magistrate of Chandrapore; it is expected that Ronny and Adela will marry and she will stay on in India.
While Ronny and the other English bureaucrats feel quite at ease sequestered in their enclaves, which are off-limits to Indians, Mrs. Moore and Adela feel deprived by their isolation. They want to see the "real" India. One evening Mrs. Moore wanders away from a dreadfully boring play at the British club and goes to see a nearby mosque. Her presence startles Dr...