Wuthering Heights

PLOT

The story is that of the fierce passionate love between the moor-loving, wild girl Catherine Earnshaw and the poor equally wild spirit her father takes in to be raised as her brother, Heathcliff. When her father dies, Catherine's biological brother, jealous that Heathcliff was their father's favorite, treats Heathcliff as a servant and has him beaten. The story tracks the story of Healthcliff's and Catherine's fierce love and Heathcliff's rage, pain, jealousy and vengeance that he pitilessly enacts on the man that gets in the way of his marrying her, Edgar Linton. Heathcliff and Catherine's love is painted in intense Romantic tones in contrast to the superficial artifice and shallow feeling of high society as represented by the Lintons. Ultimately Catherine dies and a devastated Heathcliff begs her to haunt him as a ghost. The story then follows how her daughter with Linton, and his son with Linton's sister – who Heathcliff tricks into marrying him and then treats with great cruelty – fall in love. Theirs is the happy romantic ending that Heathcliff and Catherine are denied, except after death, walking as ghosts together on the moors.

CAST

Ralph Fiennes as Heathcliff

Juliette Binoche as Catherine Earnshaw and Catherine Linton

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

Simon Ward as Mr. Linton

Jennifer Daniel as Mrs. Linton

Paul Geoffrey as Mr. Lockwood

John Woodvine as Thomas Earnshaw

Jonathan Firth as Linton Heathcliff

Sinéad O'Connor as Emily Brontë

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights