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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780609617
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, Special Edition, NTSC
ISBN: 0780609611
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Release Date: March 26, 1996
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 34619
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 1993
Editorial Review:
Description:
A prequel to 'Jane Eyre.' An Englishman in nineteenth-century Jamaica falls into a tortured marriage with a native Creole. When the woman begins to go mad, her husband takes her back to his gothic estate in England, where he locks her in the attic.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Interesting concept
This is the story of Mr. Rochester's mad wife and how they got together. I only gave this video 4 stars because I like the concept and the story itself was intriguing.
The editing wasn't all that great and the screenplay didn't do much for me. I didn't mind that it was erotic. You can choose your rating btw and watch hotter if you like. I watched the lesser "R" rating and wished there had been a PG. I really did not need to see Mr. Rochester naked, but some people may like that.
I liked ... Read More
Rating:  - Would be improved by more character development
I'm a great fan of _Jane Eyre_ but have not read _Wide Sargasso Sea_, though reviewers of the film say the book is better.
This could have been an excellent character film, showing how Rochester exaggerated his relationship with his wife "Bertha" to Jane. Was Mason the brother-in-law mad, and passing a hereditary madness on to "Bertha"? No, he and his brother (the one who married Antoinette/Bertha's widowed mother) were not only not even her biological relatives, they were merely dips. ... Read More
Rating:  - Nothing to do with "Jane Eyre"
If it were not for the characters who-- in name --resemble Bronte's 'Jane Eyre' ---this movie would barely stir the mild interest of a B movie. Yes, there is landscape and sex and an unsuccessful effort to create depth in characters-- so lets'leave it to that and enjoy the charm of a B movie.
Bertha Mason-- Rochester's wife (in "Jane Eyre") is not afflicted with any modern disease of loneliness, or anomie, or inability to adjust-- as the movie suggests-- but has inherited an unfortunate ... Read More
Rating: - Not Worth the money
I had a hard time figuring out what the movie was about. I'm a Nathanial Parker fan which was the reason for purchasing the movie. I thought the movie was very disjointed. Mr. Rochester (Parker) marries a woman with severe mental problems stemming from her childhood and voodoo.
Rating: - nice prequel to Jane Eyre
Many reviewers here did not like this, but I found it quite interesting. You get the young Rochester, and this time around his pre-crazy wife is shown completely sympathetically, like a victim of his insensitivity rather than the curse hidden away (that he had to bear due to fate alone). In my opinion, this adds depth to the characters. It is easy, of course, to interpret her insanity as inevitable, but I saw it as a role that was created for her in the marriage, and it didn't need to be that way ... Read More
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