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Release Date
• USA: Apr 16, 1993
DVD Release Date
• R1: Nov 4, 2003
MPAA Rating
NC17
Running Time
1 hour, 38 minutes
Country Australia
Studio Fine Line Features, New Line Cinema
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Other Titles
• Wide Sargasso Sea
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Genre: Drama, Erotic, Love, Racy, Melodrama, Marriage
Plot: WIDE SARGASSO SEA is based on Jean Rhys' feminist "prequel" to Charlotte Bronte's classic novel, JANE EYRE. Rhys' novel took JANE EYRE as its inspiration, and imagined a history for the mysterious first Mrs. Rochester. The novel is considered both a feminist masterpiece, and insightful in terms of its exploration of the European attitude toward race. On the island of Jamaica in 1844, amidst the political upheaval brought about by slavery's abolition, Antoinette Cosway (Karina Lombard), a free-spirited Creole, is forced to enter into an arranged marriage in order to inherit her dilapidated family's estate. At first she resents Rochester (Nathaniel Parker), her new husband; then, gradually, she falls in love with him. But Antoinette has many secrets that she cannot keep her husband from discovering. Soon the disturbed and suspicious Rochester, affected by the spell of Jamaica's "exotic atmosphere," brings the story to its tragic, and inevitable, conclusion.
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