Wide Sargasso Sea with Karina Lombard: DVD Cover
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Wide Sargasso Sea Director: John Duigan Cast: Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Rachel Ward, Michael York

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  • DVD Release Date: 11/04/2003
  • Original Release: 1992
  • Rating: Rated NC17

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Closed Caption; NC-17 and R-rated versions; DTS Surround Sound; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound; Stereo Surround Sound; English subtitles and closed captions; Original theatrical trailer; DVD-ROM enabled

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Side #1 --
1. Main Title/In the Sea [2:08]
2. New Hope [3:01]
3. Dangerous and Stupid Men [4:54]
4. "Deliver Us from Evil" [4:19]
5. Arrangements [1:46]
6. Rochester's Faint Greeting [3:55]
7. Reconciliations [2:50]
8. Their New Home [5:39]
9. Dream Places [3:00]
10. Early Pleasures [6:34]
11. Nightmare [2:35]
12. Wild Mrs. Rochester [4:31]
13. The Letter [5:24]
14. Beast and Gentleman [:03]
15. Ugly Homecoming [:09]
16. Visits and Threats [:02]
17. Some Belated Truth [:02]
18. Potions and a New Song [:55]
19. Omens [:02]
20. Confrontations [:02]
21. Sudden Departure [4:36]
22. "The End of My Dream" [5:12]
23. End Credits [5:21]

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Editorial Reviews

Director John Duigan brings Jean Rhys' difficult 1966 best-selling novel to the screen. It's a story meant to be a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, surmising what drove the first Mrs. Rochester mad in that novel. In Jamaica in the 1840s, slavery has been recently outlawed. Plantation owner Annette Cosway (Rachel Ward) has become so poor that she marries a rich, boorish Englishman whom she does not love. Her husband, Paul Mason (Michael York), is a sexist, racist tyrant who mistreats his servants and his wife. Paul flees to England after the servants and their countrymen revolt and burn down the mansion, killing Annette's young son. Annette goes insane and is consigned to the care of a servant. Her daughter Antoinette (Karina Lombard) is placed in a convent until she is old enough to inherit the property, but the inheritance depends on her marrying a proper husband. By previous arrangement, she marries Edward Rochester (Nathaniel Parker). At first they are lustily in love, but Rochester proves to be as elitist who is as disrespectful as Mason. Rochester has title to all of Antoinette's property, but he despises Jamaica and wants to return to England. He also fears the black magic of Christophene (Claudia Robinson), who mixes up a voodoo potion which ends up driving the couple farther apart. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide All Movie Guide

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Different from the bookby Anonymous

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October 06, 2002: wide Sargasso sea is different from the book. Paul mason does not mistreat his wife in the book - he loves her but from what i gathered annette doesn't love him. Rochester doesn't mistreat Antoinette, he is just indifferent to her. I dislike movies that don't really stick to the novels much and I definately was not impressed with this version of Wide Sargasso sea.

This review was written about the VHS Rated edition.

lush and erotic movieby Anonymous

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April 20, 2002: I felt so sorry for Antionette(Katrina Lombard)To lose your father and brother to a early traumatic death is bad enough,but to lose your mother is worse. No wonder the poor woman went crazy. Nathaniel Parker is the elitist who marries her and then later fearing he will lose control,coldly turns away from her. A movie to drag your boyfriend to.

This review was written about the VHS Rated edition.