Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929010646
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-04-15
Running Time: 159
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 1997-10-26

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Summary: Worst BBC movie
Comment: This is the worst BBC movie I have ever seen. When I order one of those classic Jane Austen-style movies, I expect something "clean" that I could watch with children in the house. I did not expect or desire to view bedroom scenes in a period film, especially scenes containing sexual perversion and depravity. I guess they wanted to show how demented the heroine's husband was, but the scenes were disturbing and I wish I had never seen that movie.

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Summary: Aghhh!!!
Comment: I grew up in a valley with six large steel mills that worked 24/7 during WWII. The blast furnaces spewed ashes over the town several times a day, and we didn't know anything but smoky, smelly, overcast skies - except when it rained or snowed which cleaned the air for a while. But a few hours after the snow ended it became black from the ash. Not exactly the scene from a Christmas card.

There were four sets of railroad tracks between our house and the river, and the trains ran all the time carrying war materiels. There was a lot of drunkenness, gambling, fighting, wife beating, and other violence. This is probably the real reason that blackouts and a curfew were imposed - to try to keep people under control.

Georgie, my next door neighbor and best friend's mother was shot six times one summer evening by her drunken, enraged husband. Georgie and his two older sisters became wards of the state and I never saw them again.

I tell you this because I have not recalled these events for many, many years until watching 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'. Thank goodness my gun was in the safe, or I probably would have shot out the TV. It's really that awful.

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Summary: A HIDDEN SURPRISE IN THIS GEM
Comment: I watched this movie because I love many of the actors, especially Rupert Graves(Forsythe Saga,Room With a View),Toby Stevens(Chamomile Lawn, Jane Eyre)and Tara Fitzgerald(Chamomile Lawn,Frenchman's Creek). My greatest and most wonderful SURPRISE was to discover JAMES PUREFOY (HBO/"ROME's Mark Anthony)playing Helen's brother, Gilbert! This CD definately goes into my "Favorite Movie" cabinet. Excellent story, great casting&acting by all involved in this production.

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Summary: Wildfell Intense Drama
Comment: I bought this DVD because of Toby Stephens, and I can tell you was not the least bit disappointed in the DVD. The acting is very good. It is a very intense drama and I was glued to the TV watching it. Mr. Stephens is a very good actor and good looking as well. Tara Fitzgerald the lead actress played and made a very difficult role imagineable. If you like drama, get it.

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Summary: One of my fav BBC movies.
Comment: This movie is about people and situations that are not always what they seem. A widow named Helen Graham--played skillfully by Tara Fitzgerald, along with her young son, move into an old estate and attempt to just live day to day, minding their own business. The townspeople however, are very curious about the rather aloof newcomer and her overprotectiveness of her son. Helen is a self dependant woman who sells her paintings to make a living, and does not wish to let strangers come too close. One of the townspeople, Gilbert Markham--played by the ever handsome Toby Stephans, can not help but be drawn to Helen and wishes to learn more about her. Helen hides a secret and eventually she shares it with Gilbert. Helen is not the widow as she portrays. She is married to a complete rake of a man, Arthur Huntingdon-played by the talented Rupert Graves, who has never been totally faithful to her. Arthur takes off months at a time to carouse with his buddies, leaving Helene alone to raise their infant son. Later, when their son is a little older, the alcoholic Arthur and his band of goon friends force the boy to drink-which he promptly throws up-to make the boy become, "a man". Arthur then hires a governess to teach the boy as punishment to Helen, keeping her away from the son she loves dearly, as she begins to despise what Arthur is doing to himself, their son and their marriage. Finally having endured enough of Arthur's abuse and fearing for the safety and well being of her son, she, her maid and son make a mad dash to freedom and arrive at Wildfell Hall, where she assumes the dress of a widow to stay in hiding. By the time Gilbert understands all that Helen has been through, Arthur has discovered where she is and brought her and their son back to their home. There Helen stays, being faithful as always to her husband, and taking a stand against his abuse and infidelity. Arthur is now gravely ill from years of alcohol and debauchery and Helen fires the governess, who was also an enabler to Arthur's alcoholism. One of Arthur's friend's tries to put the moves on Helen, but she rebuffs him, telling him she made a promise to her husband to be faithful and for the man to never come back again. Gilbert comes to rescue her, telling her she is too good for her husband, but Helen is an honest, righteous woman, and though she cares for Gilbert, she can not, nor will not, cheat on her husband. Eventually Arthur dies and Helen and her son return to Wildfell Hall. ****SPOILER ALERT**** On the way to the hall, they spot a wedding reception going on in town and Helen sees Gilbert talking and laughing with a bride. She assumes Gilbert got tired of waiting for her and married, and is saddened by this. Gilbert is told by one of the guests at the reception that they saw Helen ride by in her coach. He rushes off to see her and asks about her husband. She tells him he has died and tells Gilbert congratulations on his wedding. He explains that it wasn't he who got married but someone else. So now these two, who have been growing in love, can now be free to be married. I've watched this movie SO many times and I just love it.

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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