Contact   March 13, 2012 ‘Howards End’ opens in U.S. 20 years ago today (1992) 0 Video: 'Howards End' trailer (Friday, March 13, 1992) — Howards End , a film about class relations in turn-of-the-20th-century England, opened today in U.S. theaters, including the Fine Arts in New York. Directed by James Ivory,