Summary:
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, ... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Karina Lombard - (Antoinette Cosway)
Nathaniel Parker - (Edward Rochester)
Rachel Ward - (Annette Cosway)
Michael York - (Paul Mason)
Martine Beswicke - (Aunt Cora)
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Review:
John Duigan's film version of the Jean Rhys novel, something of a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's -Jane Eyre, is an extraordinarily atmospheric visualization of the decline of a marriage. The plot explores the first marriage of Jane Eyre's, Mr. Rochester (Nathaniel Parker), from the first blush of romance with beautiful Jamaican p... Continue >>

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