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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | 
 enlarge | Director: Mike Barker
Actors: Tara Fitzgerald, Cathy Murphy, Jackson Leach, Sarah Badel, Toby Stephens
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 1739
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 159
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 1000036990
UPC: 883929010646
EAN: 0883929010646
ASIN: B00005JOA0
Theatrical Release Date: October 26, 1997
Release Date: April 15, 2008
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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 handsome young farmer she remains mysteriously silent about her past and why she is afraid ? until she becomes the focus of malicious village gossip.Running Time: 159 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/BBC UPC: 883929010646 Manufacturer No: 1000036990
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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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 Tennant Of Wildfell Hall June 7, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Anne Bronte is an early proponent of women's rights. Although least known of the Bronte sisters Anne seems to be the most intelligent of the three. This is a wonderful story of a young woman who finds herself locked into a marriage with a very rich abusive husband, her struggles to escape his control & begin again in life as an independent woman. I would highly recommend 'The Tennant Of Wildfell Hall' to any Bronte/period piece enthusiast
Addictive and Delightful May 19, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I thoroughly enjoyed and can highly recommend this film to anyone who likes BBC period films. Let me preface by saying that this is not Jane Austen but Anne Bronte so it does not contain the usual whimsical characters bantering back and forth with witty repartee. This film is dark and somber and very chilling, however, the stellar cast and the storyline will draw you in and keep you enthralled until the final conclusion. How can you pass up any film that stars Tara Fitzgerald, Rupert Graves (who as another reviewer notes: stole the show) and Toby Stephens. It is a story of love, betrayal, depravity, guilt and absolution.
 Wonderful story May 19, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I throughly enjoyed the "Tenant of Wildfell Hall". It was a wonderful story with great characters.
 Worst BBC movie May 15, 2008
14 out of 29 found this review helpful
This is the worst BBC movie I have ever seen. When I order one of those classic Jane Austen-style movies, I expect something "clean" that I could watch with children in the house. I did not expect or desire to view bedroom scenes in a period film, especially scenes containing sexual perversion and depravity. I guess they wanted to show how demented the heroine's husband was, but the scenes were disturbing and I wish I had never seen that movie.
Aghhh!!! May 12, 2008
6 out of 28 found this review helpful
I grew up in a valley with six large steel mills that worked 24/7 during WWII. The blast furnaces spewed ashes over the town several times a day, and we didn't know anything but smoky, smelly, overcast skies - except when it rained or snowed which cleaned the air for a while. But a few hours after the snow ended it became black from the ash. Not exactly the scene from a Christmas card.
There were four sets of railroad tracks between our house and the river, and the trains ran all the time carrying war materiels. There was a lot of drunkenness, gambling, fighting, wife beating, and other violence. This is probably the real reason that blackouts and a curfew were imposed - to try to keep people under control.
Georgie, my next door neighbor and best friend's mother was shot six times one summer evening by her drunken, enraged husband. Georgie and his two older sisters became wards of the state and I never saw them again.
I tell you this because I have not recalled these events for many, many years until watching 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'. Thank goodness my gun was in the safe, or I probably would have shot out the TV. It's really that awful.
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