Movie

Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys' steamy prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

2006★ 5.6 · 151h 24mDramaRomance

Overview

Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.

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Cast

Rebecca Hall
as Antoinette Cosway

Rafe Spall
as Edward Rochester

Victoria Hamilton
as Aunt Cora

Nina Sosanya
as Christophine

Lorraine Burroughs
as Amelie

Fraser Ayres
as Daniel

Karen Meagher
as Grace Poole

Alex Robertson
as Richard Mason