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Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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.
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- Drama, Romance, Thriller
- John Duigan
- 1993-04-16
The novel and film explore Jean Rhys's account of the West Indian Creole heiress, here called Antoinette Cosway, who marries the Englishman Mr. Rochester, and becomes his "madwoman in the attic" featured in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. For a full-length summary see: plot summary of Wide Sargasso Sea. Cast
- $1,614,784
- 16 April 1993 (US)
- Jan Sharp
- Stewart Copeland
May 7, 1993 · Wide Sargasso Sea. 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. A marriage is arranged between them - a marriage no less attractive because she is the mistress of a great estate.
In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway (Rachel Ward) falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason (Michael York). But when Annette's young son dies in ...
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- John Duigan
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- Karina Lombard
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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 to claim her inheritance and sets her sights on Rochester ...
"Wide Sargasso Sea” (1993) is an adult-oriented historical drama that’s a quasi-prequel to “Jane Eyre.” I say “quasi” because the 1966 novel the movie was based on was written by Jean Rhys 119 years after the release of Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” in 1847. In other words, “Wide Sargasso Sea” is... read the rest.
