Movie · 2001
The Invention of Love
“What will become of you?”
Released 29 March 2001 104 min More from 2001 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
An esoteric play portraying the life of poet A. E. Housman focusing specifically on his personal life and love for a college classmate.
FR·01
How old were they?
Richard Easton
as Older Housman
Paul Hecht
as Jerome K. / John Ruskin
Peter McRobbie
as Mark Pattison / W.T. Stead
Guy Paul
as John Percival Postgate / Robinson Ellis
Byron Jennings
as Benjamin Jowett / Henry Labouchére
Robert Sean Leonard
as Young Housman
Michael Stuhlbarg
as Alfred William Pollard
David Harbour
as Moses John Jackson
Mark Nelson
as Chamberlain
Martin Rayner
as Frank Harris / Walter Pater
Jeff Weiss
as Charon
FR·02
The numbers
43years between the oldest and youngest billed
68Richard Easton — oldest on the call sheet
25David Harbour — youngest billed
47average age of the credited cast