Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304645635 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 6304645635 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: November 04, 1997 Running Time: 160 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: October 26, 1997 Sales Rank: 14391
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
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Rating: - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
I greatly enjoy BBC movies of the classics, and this did not disappoint. You do want to make the time to watch, or you could find yourself getting lost by splitting your attention. Give yourself an afternoon ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - not a favorite
Some times you win and really enjoy a movie this one I did not win. Not a favorite for me.
Rating: - 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, ... Read More
Rating: - 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.
- It Has Its Virtues, But It Won't Be to Everyone's Taste
- not a favorite 
- cruelty vs. unrelenting love