There is a film based on a novel by Henry James that called The Bostonians (film).
The Bostonians is a 1984 British romantic drama film based on Henry James 's novel of the same name . The Californians (film) . It is a modern-day adaptation of the 1886 Henry James novel The Bostonians , with the location moved from Boston to Marin County , California , and with the political topic driving the plot changed from feminism to environmentalism .