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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Miramax
Salesrank: 9013
Released: February 4, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Academy Award(R)-winner William Hurt (1985 Best Actor -- KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN; SMOKE) leads an all-star cast in this story of passion and intrigue! Jane Eyre (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is a young woman whose will to overcome a life of hardship leads her into a passionate romance with a handsome -- and mysterious -- gentleman (Hurt). Swept up in the possibility of a happy new life, Jane is shattered when terrible, untold secrets from his past are revealed, threatening to tear her and her lover apart forever! Also featuring the talents of Anna Paquin (THE PIANO), Joan Plowright (ENCHANTED APRIL), and sexy Elle MacPherson (SIRENS), this enduring tale has captivated moviegoers everywhere, just as Charlotte Bronte's classic best-seller has entertained for generations!
Description of Jane Eyre:
Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet) and screenwriter Hugh Whitemore strip away a bit of the familiar romanticism of Charlotte Brontë's novel and come up with a more plain but somehow quite interesting film adaptation. Charlotte Gainsbourg (The Cement Garden) makes for an oddly appealing but deliberately unlovely version of Jane (previous actresses have included Susannah York and Joan Fontaine), and William Hurt is excellent as an equally revised Rochester, brusque and self-involved but not the totem of torment and charisma we've seen before. The story clings to the usual chapters in the book, but with Zeffirelli shaping the principal characters to reflect their cautious perceptions of one another--rather than to a Hollywood notion of grand passion--the film has a wonderful accessibility. Great support from Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Anna Paquin, and the rest of the cast. --Tom Keogh
Jane Eyre Reviews:
Hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
2009-10-16 - I absolutely hated this movie! It was wierd and just plain disturbing! The leading man was horribly ugly! And so was the lady who played Jane Eyre! It was exactly like the book, to the word! But, the book was terrible, so that should explain this movie well... I would NOT watch it again, and NOT reccomend it to a friend!
The worst adaptation of Jane Eyre! 
2009-09-12 - I've watched different versions of Jane Eyre and this is by far the worst adaptation of Jane Eyre ever. The screenwriters butchered the whole story and to make matters even worse, the actors were dull and lifeless. There was no passion at all between Rochester and Jane in this version and it seems like Rochester married Jane only because he has nothing better to do with his time. At least that's how it seems like in this adaptation. I don't think they were even interested or attracted to each other in this movie. Why bother making this movie at all I can never comprehend. But I'd recommend the stephens/wilson (Masterpiece 2006) version or even the hinds/morton (1997) version.
The Awful and The Great! Please read for a better version...
2009-08-16 - I had the great good fortune of watching Toby Stephen's Jane Eyre first. Jane Eyre (Masterpiece Theatre, 2006) And his Jane Eyre blows this one way way way out of the water. I decided to give this one a chance thinking it wouldn't be as good but might be okay. No way was it even close to okay. I really feel that Jane Eyre has been his finest work. This is where I first knew of him, and because I loved this movie I've sought out other works of his. But none match his stellar performance in Jane Eyre. Unless there is something I haven't seen yet.
Anyway, this one is much shorter than his so perhaps this accounts for its poor character development and shallowness and my boredom? I might have been alright with it otherwise. (wouldn't have liked it but wouldn't have hated it either)
But after good-expensive-cooked-just-right-tender steak, I did not want bad-cheap-poorly-cooked-fastfood hamburger. Two extremes with this meat; And two extremes with these movies!
The Great & The Awful? or The Awful & The Great?
An Excellent Movie! 
2009-04-13 - An excellent version of the very true story of a woman who is in each life of every individual. It is basically about her true spirit in a fight with life to keep going. The film is very vivid, right down to the furnishings in the room. The acting is very perfect in the way that the book describes that they felt.
Terrible Representation
2009-03-05 - I have read the book "Jane Eyre" multiple times, it is, in fact, my favorite book. At first, I thought that the movie had done a pretty good job of portraying the story, however, as it got further into it, they took several liberties that were absolutely ridiculous. They changed things that it was unnecessary to change, such as when and how Jane met St. John Rivers. If you love the book as I do, I would absolutely not suggest watching this movie.
