Wuthering Heights

Peter Kosminsky's adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel moves the story to early nineteenth-century England, where Mr Earnshaw brings a homeless boy named Heathcliff into his household at Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff grows close to Earnshaw's daughter Cathy, while her brother Hindley comes to resent him, and the old man's death leaves Heathcliff reduced to a servant's place. When Cathy instead marries the prosperous Edgar Linton, Heathcliff's devotion turns toward revenge on those he holds responsible. Juliette Binoche plays both Cathy and her daughter Catherine, with Ralph Fiennes as Heathcliff, alongside Janet McTeer as the housekeeper Ellen Dean, Sophie Ward, Simon Shepherd and Jeremy Northam.

The film was Kosminsky's first as a director, followed years later by White Oleander and Britz, and was written by Anne Devlin and produced by Mary Selway. Paramount backed the British-American production, which runs just over an hour and three quarters.

On IMDb the film holds 6.6 out of 10 from around 16,000 votes, and on TMDB it also sits at 6.6, from roughly 325 votes, so audiences are broadly in agreement. Critics were far harsher, giving it 4.3 out of 10 across 13 reviews, a markedly lower figure than the viewer scores.