About this title: 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, boorish Englishman whom she does not love. Her husband, Paul Mason (Michael York), is a sexist, racist tyrant who mistreats his servants and his wife. Paul flees to England after the servants and their countrymen revolt ...
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Format: DVD
Studio: New Line Home Video
Date: 2003-11-04
UPC:794043632525
Description: New. Factory Sealed--On a plantation in the lush Blue Mountains of Jamaica, a family on the verge of losing their estate promises their beautiful daughter Antoinette to Englishman Edward Rochester. Their pre-arranged marriage will endow Edward with wealth in exchange for his pure Anglo bloodline. The young lovers are swept away in a maelstrom of black magic and erotic obsession that ultimately leads to betrayal and revenge. read more
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