5.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Golden Bowl (2000)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 5.9
Overview
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?
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
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?
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film focuses on complex interpersonal relationships, moral compromises, and the maintenance of social appearances within the Anglo-American upper class, without explicitly promoting or critiquing political ideologies. Its central themes are apolitical, centering on human nature and social dynamics rather than systemic political issues.
The film features casting that aligns with the historical period and source material, without intentional race or gender swaps of traditional roles. Its narrative focuses on the complexities of human relationships and social conventions within its specific setting, without explicitly critiquing traditional identities.
Secondary
The Golden Bowl does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The story centers entirely on intricate heterosexual relationships and marital infidelity among its main characters, offering no portrayal of queer identity.
The Golden Bowl does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative centers on intricate heterosexual relationships, infidelity, and social maneuvering among the wealthy elite in early 20th-century Europe, with no elements pertaining to transgender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "The Golden Bowl" is a direct adaptation of Henry James's novel. All main characters, such as Maggie Verver, Prince Amerigo, Charlotte Stant, and Adam Verver, retain their established genders from the original source material. No character canonically established as one gender is portrayed as a different gender in the film.
The film adapts Henry James's novel, featuring characters who are American expatriates and Italian aristocracy. The cast portrays these characters consistently with their implied race in the source material and historical context, with no instances of a character's race being changed.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
5.9
6.0
Critic Ratings
5.5
6.2
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