Wide Sargasso Sea (1992)
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 5
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 1
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Director John Duigan brings Jean Rhys' difficult 1966 best-selling novel to the screen. It's a story meant to be a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, surmising what drove the first Mrs. Rochester mad in that novel. In Jamaica in the 1840s, slavery has been recently outlawed. Plantation owner Annette Cosway (Rachel Ward) has become so poor that she marries a rich, boorish Englishman whom she does not love. Her husband, Paul Mason (Michael York), is a sexist, racist tyrant who
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Drama, Romance, Art House & International
Bronwyn Murray, Carole Angier, Jan Sharp, John Duigan, Shelagh Delaney
Apr 16, 1993 Wide
Nov 4, 2003
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Karina Lombard
Antoinette Cosway -
Nathaniel Parker
Edward Rochester -
Rachel Ward
Annette Cosway -
Michael York
Paul Mason -
Martine Beswick
Aunt Cora -
Claudia Robinson
Christophene -
Rowena King
Amelie -
Huw Christie Williams
Richard Mason -
Dorothy Cunningham
2nd Woman -
Bobby Smith
Machete Man -
Kevin Thomas
Benbow -
Naomi Watts
Fanny Grey -
Ben Thomas
Daniel Conway -
Paul Campbell (IV)
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A poignant study of the war between the sexes
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