The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1997)

Tennant Of Wildfell Hall

Anne Bronte is an early proponent of women's rights. Although least known of the Bronte sisters Anne seems to be the most intelligent of the three. This is a wonderful story of a young woman who finds herself locked into a marriage with a very rich abusive husband, her struggles to escape his control & begin again in life as an independent woman. I would highly recommend 'The Tennant Of Wildfell Hall' to any Bronte/period piece enthusiast June 7, 2008

Addictive and Delightful

I thoroughly enjoyed and can highly recommend this film to anyone who likes BBC period films. Let me preface by saying that this is not Jane Austen but Anne Bronte so it does not contain the usual whimsical characters bantering back and forth with witty repartee. This film is dark and somber and very chilling, however, the stellar cast and the storyline will draw you in and keep you enthralled until the final conclusion. How can you pass up any film that stars Tara Fitzgerald, Rupert Graves (who as another reviewer notes: stole the show) and Toby Stephens. It is a story of love, betrayal, depravity, guilt and absolution. May 19, 2008

Wonderful story

I throughly enjoyed the "Tenant of Wildfell Hall". It was a wonderful story with great characters. May 19, 2008

Worst BBC movie

This is the worst BBC movie I have ever seen. When I order one of those classic Jane Austen-style movies, I expect something "clean" that I could watch with children in the house. I did not expect or desire to view bedroom scenes in a period film, especially scenes containing sexual perversion and depravity. I guess they wanted to show how demented the heroine's husband was, but the scenes were disturbing and I wish I had never seen that movie. May 15, 2008

Aghhh!!!

I grew up in a valley with six large steel mills that worked 24/7 during WWII. The blast furnaces spewed ashes over the town several times a day, and we didn't know anything but smoky, smelly, overcast skies - except when it rained or snowed which cleaned the air for a while. But a few hours after the snow ended it became black from the ash. Not exactly the scene from a Christmas card.

There were four sets of railroad tracks between our house and the river, and the trains ran all the time carrying war materiels. There was a lot of drunkenness, gambling, fighting, wife beating, and other violence. This is probably the real reason that blackouts and a curfew were imposed - to try to keep people under control.

Georgie, my next door neighbor and best friend's mother was shot six times one summer evening by her drunken, enraged husband. Georgie and his two older sisters became wards of the state and I never saw them again.

I tell you this because I have not recalled these events for many, many years until watching 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'. Thank goodness my gun was in the safe, or I probably would have shot out the TV. It's really that awful. May 12, 2008

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