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Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
2011 · Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga · 120 min · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 8 frames
Tagline
She sought refuge… and found a place haunted by secrets.
Plot
A tearful Jane Eyre runs away from Thornfield Hall, finding herself alone on the moors. She collapses at the doorstep of Moor House, home of St. John Rivers and his sisters Diana and Mary; they take Jane in and nurse her back to health.
The film flashes between Jane's recovery and her grim childhood. An orphan, she is treated cruelly by her cousin John and aunt Mrs. Reed. Jane is sent to the Lowood School for Girls; under the strict Mr. Brocklehurst, the girls are beaten, but Jane befriends fellow pupil Helen Burns, who dies of consumption.
Eight years later, Jane, now 18, leaves Lowood for a position at Thornfield Hall. Welcomed by the kindly housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax, Jane begins a plain and isolated life as governess to Adèle Varens, the young French ward of Thornfield's owner. One day, Jane sees a rider thrown by his horse and comes to his aid. Returning to Thornfield, she learns the man is Edward Rochester, master of the house. He grudgingly praises her instruction of Adèle, and her own "openness and unpolluted mind”; the two find themselves curiously attracted to one another.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Moira Buffini
- Cinematography: Adriano Goldman
- Edited by: Melanie Oliver
- Music: Dario Marianelli
- Production design: Will Hughes-Jones
- Produced by: Alison Owen, Paul Trijbits
Cast
- Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre
- Michael Fassbender as Edward Rochester
- Jamie Bell as St. John
- Sally Hawkins as Mrs. Reed
- Simon McBurney as Mr. Brocklehurst
- Valentina Cervi as Bertha Mason
- Judi Dench as Mrs. Fairfax
- Su Elliot as Hannah
- Holliday Grainger as Diana Rivers
- Tamzin Merchant as Mary Rivers
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: French, English
- Studios: BBC Film, Ruby Films, Focus Features, Lipsync Productions
- Budget: $13,000,000
- Box office: $34,710,627
- Themes: friendship, prayer, smoking, painting, man woman relationship, love, rural area, snow, memory, orphan
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