Plot
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls...
Release Year: 1996
Rating: 6.6/10 (4,679 voted)
Director:
Franco Zeffirelli
Stars: William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anna Paquin
Storyline Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is answered by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax.
Writers: Charlotte Brontë, Hugh Whitemore
Cast: Anna Paquin
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Young Jane Eyre
Nic Knight
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John Reed
Nicola Howard
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Eliza Reed
Sasha Graff
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Georgiana Reed
Fiona Shaw
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Mrs. Reed
John Wood
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Mr. Brocklehurst
Geraldine Chaplin
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Miss Scatcherd
Amanda Root
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Miss Temple
Leanne Rowe
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Helen Burns
Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Jane Eyre
Richard Warwick
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John
Judith Parker
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Leah
Joan Plowright
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Mrs. Fairfax
Joséphine Serre
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Adele
(as Josephine Serre)
Billie Whitelaw
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Grace Poole
Taglines:
The passionate tale of forbidden secrets!
Release Date: 12 April 1996
Filming Locations: Brimham Rocks, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Gross: $5,200,600
(USA)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Goofs:
Continuity:
When young Jane and Helen Burns are lying together in bed, their hands and arms jump around between shots.
Quotes: Mr. Rochester:
Jane, you're a strange and almost unearthly thing.
User Review
Some bad decisions ruin what would have been an excellent adaptation
Rating: 6/10
I love the story of Jane Eyre so much, to insult anything that has to do
with this beloved character is not easy to say. But I must say how
disappointed I was with this adaptation. William Hurt was a poor Rochester
indeed. He had a very wooden and unemotional presence throughout the film.
His scenes with the Jane Eyre character had no fire or emotion at all. He
seemed very detached and aloof. If William Hurt was younger he would have
played a better St. John. However, I must say Charlotte Gainsborough was a
pretty good Jane Eyre. She looked the part and added very charming persona
to the character. But she even, at times seemed cool and unattatched to me
too. The worst element to this film was casting Elle McPherson as the role
of Blanche. Why? Blanche Ingram was beautiful, true, but she was beautiful
in the Victorian sense of the word, not a 90's waif snatched from a Parisian
runway. Sheesh. The best element to this film, however was the sequences of
young Jane and Helen at Lowood. Anna Paquin was amazing as she embodied the
young Jane to near perfection. These early, well done scenes where the best
in the entire movie but I regret to say they lead me down the primrose path
to disappointment.
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