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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781569387887
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1569387885
Label: Acorn Media
Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Acorn Media
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 09, 2005
Running Time: 201 minutes
Sales Rank: 19883
Studio: Acorn Media
Theatrical Release Date: 1991
Editorial Review:
Description:
Based on the towering 18th-century novel by Samuel Richardson--the original tale of fatal attraction and the model for all literary dangerous liaisons to come--this acclaimed BBC production features an impressive line-up of stars, including Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Troy, Lady Chatterley), Saskia Wickham (Angels & Insects, Peak Practice), Hermione Norris (Cold Feet), and Sean Pertwee (Cadfael, Dog Soldiers).
Sean Bean plays Lovelace, a handsome rake determined to seduce--and thus destroy--the beautiful young virgin Clarissa Harlowe (Saskia Wickham), a wealthy heiress famed for her virtue. As Clarissa is forced by her scheming family into the predatory Lovelace’s arms, it seems certain that he will succeed. But Lovelace has failed to reckon with both Clarissa’s strength of character and his one fatal weakness: his own heart. For the first time in his life, he becomes genuinely infatuated with his prey--a failing that drives him to new heights of decadence and sows the seeds of his own destruction.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Awful story
No matter how "well done" this movie is, it is an awful story, including a graphic rape scene. Shame on Masterpiece Theater. Avoid.
Rating:  - Clarrisa - It was as good as I remembered
A good few years ago I watched Clarrisa on TV and fell in love with the story. Since then I have been waiting for it's release and was so excitied to finally find it out on dvd. It has everything a great romantic/tragic classic should. A great story of a young lady who is known for her out standing virtue, who in desperation to escape a dreadful impending marriage (which of course has been set up by her family) falls in to the arms of a handsome scoundral, who is desperate to help himself to her ... Read More
Rating:  - Fast and Dark
Based on one of the (allegedly) longest novels in Anglo canon, "Clarrisa" tells the tragic story of a woman whose beauty is matched only by her virtue. (How tragic? Let's just say that in the novel, told in a series of letters, the reading of a character's will takes up an entire chapter, or a dozen chapters worth of what you'd find in a contemporary novel.)
This TV movie (which I caught years ago on "Masterpiece Theater") has a fascinating take on Regency-era England - unwilling ... Read More
Rating: - Young lady's life in 18th century
Wonderful made for TV series tells the classic tale of a young upper class woman Clarissa. Clarissa is a young lady brought up in a wealthy family, of exceptional virtue. She is so pure and innocent that her grandfather decides to leave her all of his wealth. This of course, is a time in England when women (wives and daughters) were property of their fathers and brothers. In spite of her wealth, Clarissa is persuaded by her parents that she should submit control of her wealth to her family that ... Read More
Rating: - Horrible film
This is a horrible, dark, depressing film. It is not at all plausible that so many people would go to such lengths of deception in order to aid Lovelace in his despicable plots against an innocent young woman who has been forced to seek his assistance.
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