Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

Infobox Film
name = Wuthering Heights


caption = ©TNT 1992
director = Peter Kosminsky
producer = Simon Bosanquet
Mary Selway
Chris Thompson
writer = Anne Devlin
Emily Brontë (book)
starring = Juliette Binoche
Ralph Fiennes
Janet McTeer
music = Ryuichi Sakamoto
cinematography = Mike Southon
editing = Tony Lawson
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = 1992
runtime = 105 minutes
country = UK
language = English
budget =
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imdb_id = 0104181

"Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights" was a 1992 feature film adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights.

Paramount Pictures was forced to use the author's name in the title of the film as Samuel Goldwyn Studio (later sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) owned the rights to the simple title "Wuthering Heights" due to the copyright on their 1939 film version of the novel. The film stars Ralph Fiennes as the tortured Heathcliff and Juliette Binoche as the free spirited Catherine Earnshaw. The role of Heathcliff opened up doors for Ralph Fiennes to play Amon Goeth in Schindlers List. Spielberg claimed he liked Fiennes for Goeth because of his "dark sexuality".

Main Cast

*Ralph Fiennes as Heathcliff
*Juliette Binoche as Cathy Earnshaw Linton (and later as Catherine Linton, Cathy's daughter)
*Jeremy Northam as Hindley Earnshaw
*Simon Shepherd as Edgar Linton
*Sophie Ward as Isabella Linton
*Janet McTeer as Nelly Dean
*Jason Riddington as Hareton Earnshaw
*Jonathan Firth as Linton Heathcliff
*Sinéad O'Connor as Emily Bronte

Trivia

In the US, this film first premiered on TNT on December 5, 1992.

Differences between the novel and the film

* In the film, Heathcliff is approximately 12 when Mr Earnshaw brings him to Wuthering Heights. In the novel, he is approximately 6
* Catherine Linton does not look like Catherine Earnshaw in the novel; she is more similar in appearance to her father, Edgar Linton
* Catherine Earnshaw does not know she is pregnant with Catherine Linton, due to her mental illness

External links

*imdb title|id=0104181|title=Wuthering Heights