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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
from BBC Warner
starring Tara Fitzgerald, Cathy Murphy, Jackson Leach, Sarah Badel, Toby Stephens
directed by Mike Barker

Features:

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Subtitled

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• It Has Its Virtues, But It Won't Be to Everyone's Taste
  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," a feature-length 1996 television costume drama produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation, was seen here on broadcast TV in 1997. It was based upon the little-known book of the same name, published in 1848, by the Victorian-era British author Anne Bronte. She is the least-known of the three famous Bronte sisters, all of whom specialized in moody works set on England's scenic moors, upon which they were raised. Emily Bronte, of course, gave us "Wuthering Heights;"... more info

• not a favorite
  Some times you win and really enjoy a movie this one I did not win. Not a favorite for me.

• cruelty vs. unrelenting love
  Wow, what an intense, dark Gothic romance! A mysterious, beautiful widow with a past arrives with her son to a nosey, judgemental countryside town. A past that is slowly unraveled with the pryings of a handsome, obsessed suitor.
  The actors are superb: Tara Fitzgerald(Helen), whom I simply adore as an actress, as the long suffering, fiel heroine with a lesson to learn and a son to protect, Rupert Graves(Arthur)as the depraved, never changing, rogue, 'Byron' whom she can't stop loving, and Toby... more info

• Doro's Opinion
  I really enjoyed this one. It kept me guessing and held me to the end. I look forward to seeing it again. True to the English countryside and culture of the period, it is worth viewing many times.

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