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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929010646
Feature: Rupert Graves, Toby Stephens and Tara Fitzgerald star in this Peabody Award and BAFTA winning BBC Adaptation of the Anne Bront? novel. Powerful, haunting and disturbing, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is as powerful a story as those of Bront??s more famous sisters. In a remote village on the Yorkshire moors, a beautiful widow and her son move into the near-derelict Wildfell Hall. Befriended by a hand
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: BBC Warner
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
MPN: 1000036990
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Running Time: 159 minutes
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: October 26, 1997
Features:- Rupert Graves, Toby Stephens and Tara Fitzgerald star in this Peabody Award and BAFTA winning BBC Adaptation of the Anne Bront? novel. Powerful, haunting and disturbing, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is as powerful a story as those of Bront??s more famous sisters. In a remote village on the Yorkshire moors, a beautiful widow and her son move into the near-derelict Wildfell Hall. Befriended by a hand
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Rupert Graves Toby Stephens and Tara Fitzgerald star in this Peabody Award and BAFTA winning BBC Adaptation of the Anne Bront? novel. Powerful haunting and disturbing The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is as powerful a story as those of Bront??s more famous sisters. In a remote village on the Yorkshire moors a beautiful widow and her son move into the near-derelict Wildfell Hall. Befriended by a handsome young farmer she remains mysteriously silent about her past and why she is afraid ? until she becomes the focus of malicious village gossip.Running Time: 159 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/BBC UPC: 883929010646 Manufacturer No: 1000036990
Amazon.com:
The BBC adaptation of Anne Bronte's moral tale The Tenant of Wildfell Hall will be a delight to those who revel in classics brought to the screen. Tara Fitzgerald stars as Helen Graham, a secretive woman who seeks independence for herself and her son from her cruel husband, Arthur Huntingdon. Huntingdon, a rake taken with women and drink, is played to perfection by Rupert Graves, believable as both the young lover who seduces Helen and as the depraved and brutish man he becomes. Toby Stephens is Gilbert Markham, the suspicious yet adoring yeoman farmer smitten with the supposed widow. The scenery and costumes of this period piece are lush, although the use of flashback as a narrative device is at times jarring. This tale is darker than the Jane Austen adaptations that BBC audiences are used to, yet the two-part film has an ending satisfying enough for even the most cynical of romantics. --Jenny Brown
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I am giving this one a low rating because of how far off the story of the movie is from the book. If I had never read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Oxford World's Classics), I might have given this a 3 star rating, but it just doesn't compare to the book at all. The actors are alright, but there were parts about the costumes/hairstyles that got on my nerves. I think they could have done a much better job. I also wish they would have stayed with the real storyline a little better. I understand that movies will always be a little different than the book, but I felt like they really went way off in this one. And it wasn't like it was for lack of time, because it was three hours long...three one hour sections. I would watch it again, so it isn't like I hated it, I just didn't really like it all the much. But I have only seen it once, and sometimes on the second watching you will like it more, so that is why I would watch it again...plus I own it, so might as well watch it again someday right!?!
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A mysterious woman and her son arrives in a town thought to be a widow and is pursued by a man from the community. He can not figure out why she is not receptive to his advances until...
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I enjoyed this film BUT there is something about Tara Fitzgerald that always comes across as extremely cold. I understand that for the most part it was required in her role in this film still, I think it was difficult for her to ever really warm up. Having said that, I thought she did very well in this film and the male leads were very good.
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although I am not an expert I would recommend this movie to those of you who enjoy period movies. This movie kept my attention and kept me wondering what would come next. It's a good movie to watch on a raining night, alone or with someone who enjoy period movies like you. Happy viewing
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This made for TV is packaged well and is typical of all the good BBC made for TV series, well cast, well acted and an interesting story line, has a Jane Eyre feel to it. There is mystery and intrigue aplenty and as the story unfolds you begin to understand the reasons why some of the characters act the way they do. My wife and I enjoyed it although I do not think that it would be suitable for all ages as it is a bit deep in parts and you would spend time explaining things to the younger members of the family.
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