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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0883929010646 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: BBC Warner Languages: 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 Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - cruelty vs. unrelenting loveWow, 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, ... Read More Rating: - Doro's OpinionI 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. Rating: - The Tenant of WildfellThe BBC production of this Anne Bronte novel is excellent. Fine cast (especially Toby Stephens and Dame Judy Dench) I fully enjoyed this DVD. Rating: - Tennant Of Wildfell HallAnne Bronte is an early proponent of women's rights. Although least known of the Bronte sisters Anne seems to be the most intelligent of the three. This is a wonderful story of a young woman who finds herself locked into a marriage with a very rich abusive husband, her struggles to escape his control & begin again in life as an independent woman. I would highly recommend 'The Tennant Of Wildfell Hall' to any Bronte/period piece enthusiast Rating: - Addictive and DelightfulI thoroughly enjoyed and can highly recommend this film to anyone who likes BBC period films. Let me preface by saying that this is not Jane Austen but Anne Bronte so it does not contain the usual whimsical characters bantering back and forth with witty repartee. This film is dark and somber and very chilling, however, the stellar cast and the storyline will draw you in and keep you enthralled until the final conclusion. How can you pass up any film that stars Tara Fitzgerald, Rupert Graves (who as ... Read More |
