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Wide Sargasso Sea
Starring: Rafe Spall , Rebecca Hall
Directed by: Brendan Maher
Produced by: Elwen Rowlands
Written by: Stephen Greenhorn
1830s Jamaica serves as the wonderfully exotic backdrop for this splendid adaptation of the acclaimed Jean Rhys novel.
Item Number: 14863
- Format:
- DVD Widescreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 1 1/3 Hours
- Number of Discs:
- 1
- Special Features:
Subtitled in English for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
Biography of Jean Rhys
Cast Filmographies
1830s Jamaica serves as the wonderfully exotic backdrop for this splendid adaptation of the acclaimed Jean Rhys novel. As the author imagined, the infamous madwoman in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre had been an innocent, born into two cultures, but belonging to neither. Rafe Spall (A Room with a View) and Rebecca Hall (Frost/Nixon) star as a pair of lovers with mismatched pasts, as lust and love become suspicion and betrayal. The doomed affair between a young Englishman and a Creole heiress makes for riveting drama as well as a passionate and heartbreaking love story. "Sensual and romantic"-Siskel & Ebert. "Infinitely romantic...the film's eroticism is real."-The New York Times.
| Edward Rochester | --- | Rafe Spall |
| Antoinette Cosway | --- | Rebecca Hall |
| Christophine | --- | Nina Sosanya |
| Aunt Cora | --- | Victoria Hamilton |
| Daniel | --- | Fraser Ayres |
| Amelie | --- | Lorraine Burroughs |
| Richard Mason | --- | Alex Robertson |
| Grace Poole | --- | Karen Meagher |
Written by Jean Rhys
Screenplay by Stephen Greenhorn
Directed by Brendan Maher
Produced by Elwen Rowlands
Executive Produced by Jane Featherstone, Claire Parker
Original Music by Nina Humphreys
Cinematography by David Luther
Film Editing by Victoria Boydell
Costume Design by Les Lansdowne
