# Period piece turn of the century

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**Created:** [November 7, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/period-piece-turn-of-the-century/9910 "2025-11-07T03:14:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nikki](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Nikki](https://filmfind.me/u/Nikki)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/period-piece-turn-of-the-century/9910/1 "2025-11-07T03:14:11Z")

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I’m trying to remember a movie, I believe it might’ve been based on a book, set turn-of-the-century, possibly Victorian era. A girl has a crush on a guy and is embarrassed that he prefers reading to playing tennis (or racquetball), or something to that effect. There’s definitely a man reading instead of participating in the game and either he’s teased over it, or she is, because she likes him.

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**Author:** ![casspir](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/8491ac/32.png) [@casspir](https://filmfind.me/u/casspir)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 5:06am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/period-piece-turn-of-the-century/9910/2 "2025-11-07T05:06:31Z")

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Maybe?:

It is **based on** the 1908 **nove** l by E.M. Forster, and i **t is set turn-of-the-century**.

Quotes from the below Wikipedia plot:  
” **In 1907** a young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch,”  
”Freddy invites George **to play tennis** at Windy Corner, the Honeychurch home, **during which Cecil reads Miss Lavish’s latest novel** set in Italy. As **Cecil mockingly reads aloud** to Lucy and George,”

> **[A Room with a View (1985) ⭐ 7.2 | Drama, Romance](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091867/)**
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> 1h 57m | Not Rated

Detailed plot summary on Wikipedia here:

> **[A Room with a View (1985 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_with_a_View_(1985_film))**
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> A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. It was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who adapted E. M. Forster's 1908 novel A Room with a View. Set in England and Italy, it is about a young woman named Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) in the final throes of the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England and her developing love for a free-spirited young man, George Emerson (Julian Sands). Maggie Smith, Denholm Elli...

You can watch the full movie on YouTube here, the tennis scene starts at around the 0:56:15 mark:

[![](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/3/30d48b03f3fd5b9c675dee58ddf4f6ac67add6fe.jpeg "A Room With A View FULL MOVIE | Helena Bonham Carter & Maggie Smith | Romantic Drama | Femme Fatales") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3lwXJ_EiWo)