The players of the film > > < Maurice Hall : James Wilby > Beautifully played by James Wilby, Maurice has a quiet way about him, sensitive yet ordinary. But he has an air of bigger things to him, which Forster wrote him as having "an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him." Maurice goes through a heartbreak we can feel, but he carries on, braver in that sense than Clive, who always seemed to be the one with his head on straight. < Clive Durham : Hugh Grant > He's handsome, intelligent, artistocratic, somewhat arrogant but inwardly vulnerable. In the end, his vulnerability and fear get the better of him and he succumbs to the pressures of society. Clive does love Maurice to the very end, but thinks in the higher scheme of things. To some he would come across cowardly and cold to turn away from the one he loves, others would understand the agony he goes through to make such a decision. Personally, all I was thinking was, "Yes! Hugh Grant in a gay role!" Yum. (^_~) < Alec Scudder : Rupert Graves > If Maurice was floundering about after 'losing' Clive, it is Alec who saves him. I don't know much about the character, but he's working class at Clive's estate, and it is he who 'wakes' Maurice fully into himself. Maurice, suspicious at first, finally finds passion and happiness with him while Clive marries into a chaste marriage bed.