Release Date

16 Apr, 1993

Runtime

01:38: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

The sensual film based on the acclaimed novel by Jean Rhys.

In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry to claim her inheritance and sets her sights on Rochester, an Englishman eerily similar to Mason.

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Actors

Karina Lombard

Nathaniel Parker

Rachel Ward

Michael York

Martine Beswick

Claudia Robinson

Paul Campbell

Naomi Watts

Rowena King

Crew

John Duigan

Jan Sharp

Carole Angier

Kathryn Milliss

Simon Quaife

Kimberly Wright

Leilani Hannah

Jane Goldsmith

Charlotte Brontë

Jean Rhys

Stewart Copeland

Geoff Burton

Anne Goursaud

Jimmy Sandoval