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Wide Sargasso Sea
"Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys' steamy prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre"
2006 • 1h 24m • ★ 5.6 (15 votes) Released
Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.
Director
Brendan Maher
Writer
Stephen Greenhorn
Writer
Jean Rhys
Rating
5.6
Runtime
84 min
Budget
$1.5M
Production
BBC Cymru Wales
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Keywords
motherbased on novel or bookenglandinsanityjamaicaimprisonmentprequelweddingmadnessattic
