The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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Actor: Jackson Leach, Rupert Graves, Sarah Badel, Tara Fitzgerald, Toby StephensBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 159 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Product features:
- 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 hand
DVD Reviews of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
DVD Review: good viewing,good movie
Summary: 5 Stars
although I am not an expert I would recommend this movie to those of you who enjoy period movies. This movie kept my attention and kept me wondering what would come next. It's a good movie to watch on a raining night, alone or with someone who enjoy period movies like you. Happy viewing DVD Review: Classic BBC Drama
Summary: 4 Stars
This made for TV is packaged well and is typical of all the good BBC made for TV series, well cast, well acted and an interesting story line, has a Jane Eyre feel to it. There is mystery and intrigue aplenty and as the story unfolds you begin to understand the reasons why some of the characters act the way they do. My wife and I enjoyed it although I do not think that it would be suitable for all ages as it is a bit deep in parts and you would spend time explaining things to the younger members of the family.DVD Review: Awful! Don't buy this movie!
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is trash. It is poorly directed, it has poor acting, and a very stupid plot. The ending is terrible when her son is kidnapped. Don't waste your time or money!DVD Review: Too underdeveloped...leaves out too many important details
Summary: 2 Stars
I personally did not find this film adaptation of Anne Bronte's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" to be very interesting. I did not give the film one star because the adaptation was not a complete disaster. There were some qualities in the film that I found admirable (for example: The film conveys the main theme of a male dominated society, where females have no power).
Unlike many people who gave the film adaptation a 5-star rating, I have actually read "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" in full. The penguin edition of the novel is 489 pages - considerably longer than Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." Unfortunately, the scriptwriter did not feel that it was acceptable to create a truly wonderful and well-developed mini-series from the novel. Instead, the film is a SHELL with no juicy plot inside.
Now, I am not saying that some people (especially people who are not literary scholars, but rather individuals who enjoy love stories) might not find the film interesting. I am simply saying that I was bored by the production.
ANALYSIS:
In the 1970s and even 1980s, BBC miniseries were often produced using much of the original language from the novel (see Jane Eyre 1973 or 1983, Pride and Prejudice 1980, & Oliver Twist 1985). Many of the miniseries followed the novel very closely. They had simply the agenda of conveying the book in drama. In some regard, these films were like a play. Often cameras were situated in a position where editing was at a minimal. Furthermore, in these miniseries, minor characters were well developed.
Since the late 1990s, films have been overedited, and minor characters have been forgotten (Hargrave rarely gets any screen time, Ralph and Helen Hattersley along with Lord Lowborough and Mr. Grimsby are forgotten, and Helen's live before marriage to Arthur is not portrayed.). In essence, the focus of this film is very limited. Since I have read the novel, this makes the film very boring. Furthermore, some elements of plot are altered (for example: the time, place, and context of Gilbert's confrontation with Frederick Lawrence).
Recommended instead: Jane Eyre (1973) (1983)
DVD Review: Another Bronte success
Summary: 5 Stars
I love Jane Eyre, and when Masterpiece Theater showed this story several years ago, I watched it. Branwell must have been the muse for his sisters' story, because each one has a disturbed character that is central in each heroine's life.
The story is timeless in that it shows what life can be life with a "bad boy" (an abusive alcoholic) who attracts a naive girl (she does not see the danger of the liason). Her aunt who knows better and tries to put a stop to the romance. Like today with girls who attach themselves to abusers, it shows how difficult it is to leave and ultimately she goes back.
This story should be required reading for all adolescent girls, who think that they can save the "bad boys." Experience teaches us only the bad boys can save themselves, which unfortunately for many it is too late.
Description of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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.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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