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  1. Language. English. Box office. $1,614,784 [1] Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1993 Australian film directed by John Duigan, and starring Karina Lombard and Nathaniel Parker. It is an adaptation of Jean Rhys 's 1966 novel of the same name .

  2. Named by Time as one of the '100 best English-language novels since 1923'. Rated number 94 on the list of Modern Library's 100 Best Novels; Winner of Cheltenham Booker Prize 2006 for year 1966; Adaptations. 1993: Wide Sargasso Sea, film adaptation directed by John Duigan and starring Karina Lombard and Nathaniel Parker.

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  4. Apr 16, 1993 · Wide Sargasso Sea: Directed by John Duigan. With Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Rachel Ward, Michael York. A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood and her ...

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    • Drama, Romance, Thriller
    • John Duigan
    • 1993-04-16
  5. Reviews. Wide Sargasso Sea. Roger Ebert May 07, 1993. Tweet. Now streaming on: Rent. Powered by JustWatch. She is a beautiful woman who lives caught in a web of superstition and fear, on an island in the sun. He is a rakish, handsome young man from England, out to visit his friends and perhaps make his fortune.

  6. Apr 16, 1993 · Overview. In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry ...

  7. This prequel, set in Jamaica during the 1830s, relates the early life of Antoinette Bertha Cosway, the willful and beautiful young Creole woman who becomes the bride of an English aristocrat and, shortly thereafter, the madwoman he sequesters in "Jane Eyre," Charlotte Bronte's classic gothic novel.

  8. Synopsis. A young Antoinette Cosway (Casey Burna) recalls her youth in 1844 Jamaica, growing up with her French-Creole mother, Annette (Rachel Ward), and younger brother Pierre (Dominic Needham). Since the abolition of slavery on the island and the financial collapse of Coulibri, the family's sugar plantation, Antoinette's English father drank ...

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