MASTERPIECE: WUTHERING HEIGHTS

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• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Romance
• Plot: This brilliant adaptation of Emily Brontë's timeless tale breaks new ground by covering the complete story of a love so powerful that it reaches beyond the grave. Orla Brady (The Rector’s Wife, Proof) stars as literature's most controversial heroine, the spirited, but tragic Cathy. Robert Cavanah (Cracker, Cadfael) plays Heathcliif, the dark stranger whose love for Cathy leads him to take terrible revenge on anyone who comes between them. ; ; Nothing is known of Heathcliff’s mysterious past when kindly Mr. Earnshaw adopts him into his family, but his daughter Cathy sees in him a soul very much like her own. They are divided by birth, class, and Cathy's jealous brother, but nothing can break the bond between them—nor even when Cathy marries the wealthy gentleman Edgar Linton. Yet there are forces in nature that seem to be even more powerful than their love. ;
• Cast: Robert Cavanah, Peter Davison, Orla Brady, Tom Georgeson, Matthew Macfadyen, Sarah Smart, Kadie Savage, Ken Kitson, Kevin Knapman, Terry Clynes, Polly Hemingway, Ian Shaw, Catherine Chesire, Flora Montgomery, David Maybrick, Jake Thorton, William Mannering, Moray Treadwell, Crispin Bonham-Carter, David Skynner, Emily Brontë, Neil McKay
• Director: David Skynner
• Runtime: 1:54
• Company: WGBH Boston
• Media Format: Movie