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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: A&E EAN: 9780767020299 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 0767020294 Label: A&E Home Video Manufacturer: A&E Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Publisher: A&E Home Video Release Date: October 26, 1999 Running Time: 108 minutes Studio: A&E Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 19, 1997 Sales Rank: 9727 MPN: AAED70026D
Product Description: Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 08/29/2000 Run time: 100 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com: The fascinating British actress Samantha Morton stars as the titular heroine in this provocative version of Jane Eyre, based on Charlotte Bronte's oft-filmed, 1847 novel. The familiar contours of Bronte's story are all here: Jane, the unhappy orphan, grows up to become governess at Thornfield, a gloomy estate owned by the imperious and worldly, but curiously desperate, Mr. Rochester (Ciarán Hinds). While the latter's grasping attentions stir the inexperienced young woman, the gothic goings-on at Thornfield suggest layers of unwholesome secrecy in Rochester's life. Most productions of Jane Eyre carefully reflect Bronte's absorbing balance between romance, horror, and Jane's psychological passage to adulthood. But this 1997 television movie is interesting for its near-reckless emphasis on Jane and Rochester's mutual obsession and galloping jealousies. The dramatic strategy throws off the story's overall tone, but such problems are worth it to see Morton and Hinds explore Jane Eyre's darkest possibilities. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Avoid this version at all costs
I won't write a diatribe about what I hated with this version, so I'll sum it up in as few points as possible:
-Samantha Morton too cute and young - she looked like she was 12
-Ciaran ... Read More
Rating: - A different view of a classic.
I thoroughly enjoyed this version of one of my favourite novels. Both of the main actors gave credible and passionate performances to their characters.
Rating: - Jane Eyre (A&E, 1997)
Not a great version. Both Jane and Edward come off as angry and hard instead of the sympathy inspiring characters they are in the book. The Timothy Dalton version is much better and truer not only to the ... Read More
Rating: - A&E does it again?
I am most certain that the dvd release is an A&E abridged version; which they usually broadcast in their reruns and for their Classroom series. There is a more complete version which had originally aired encompassing ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Jane and Rochester
A finely cast Jane (an early role for Samantha Morton) and Rochester (a gruff, wry Ciaran Hinds) make the difference in what is quite a short retelling of the story. In particular, the verbal fencing that goes on as they ... Read More
- Avoid this version at all costs
- A different view of a classic.
- Jane Eyre (A&E, 1997)
- Excellent Jane and Rochester