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 (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
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
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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 hand
Movie Reviews of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Movie Review: One of my fav BBC movies.
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Summary 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 Brontė novel. Powerful, haunting and disturbing, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is as powerful a story as those of Brontė?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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