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Jane Eyre
Overview
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?
Details
- Release date
- 1996-01-20
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Miramax, Cineritino S.r.L., Mediaset, RCS Editori S.p.A., Flach Film
- Country
- France, Italy, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- William Hurt as Rochester
- Charlotte Gainsbourg as Jane Eyre
- Joan Plowright as Mrs. Fairfax
- Anna Paquin as Young Jane Eyre
- Geraldine Chaplin as Miss Scatcherd
- Billie Whitelaw as Grace Poole
- Maria Schneider as Bertha
- Elle Macpherson as Blanche Ingram
- Nic Knight as John Reed
- Nicola Howard as Eliza Reed
- Sasha Graff as Georgina Reed
- Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Reed
Crew
- Franco Zeffirelli - Director
- Franco Zeffirelli - Screenplay
- Hugh Whitemore - Screenplay
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