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Wide Sargasso Sea

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Wide Sargasso Sea
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NC17,1hr 38min
Genres:
Drama,Romance
Release:
1992
Director:
John Duigan
Distributor:
New Line Home Video
Starring:
Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Rachel Ward  ...more
Synopsis: Director John Duigan brings Jean Rhys' difficult 1966 best-selling novel to the screen. It's a story meant to be a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, surmising what drove the first Mrs. Rochester mad in that novel. In Jamaica in the 1840s, slavery has been recently outlawed. Plantation owner Annette Cosway (Rachel Ward) has become so poor that she marries a rich, boorish Englishman whom she does not love. Her husband, Paul Mason (Michael York), is a sexist, racist tyrant who mistreats ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
John Duigan's film version of the Jean Rhys novel, something of a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, is an extraordinarily atmospheric visualization of the decline of a marriage. The plot explores the first marriage of Jane Eyre's, Mr. Rochester (Nathaniel Parker), from the first blush of romance with beautiful Jamaican plantation heiress Antoinette Cosway (Karina Lombard) to the disintegration ... Full Review
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Karina Lombard
Antoinette Cosway
Nathaniel Parker
Edward Rochester
Rachel Ward
Annette Cosway
Michael York
Paul Mason
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