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Wide Sargasso Sea
Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.
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“Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys' steamy prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre”
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- Oct 9, 2006
- 1h 24m
- English
- Brendan Maher
- Stephen Greenhorn, Jean Rhys
- Released
- $1.5M
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