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Masterpiece Theatre: Wuthering Heights [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
enlarge	Director: David Skynner Actors: Peter Davison, Tom Georgeson, Matthew Macfadyen, Sarah Smart, Robert Cavanah Studio: WGBH Boston Category: DVD Buy New: £7.91 Buy New/Used from £7.91 Avg. Customer Rating: (17 reviews) Sales Rank: 75967 Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dvd-video, Ntsc Language: English (Original Language) Media: DVD Running Time: 114 minutes Number Of Items: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 MPN: D40029D ISBN: 1593754663 UPC: 783421400290 EAN: 9781593754662 ASIN: B0009UZGAA Release Date: August 2, 2005 Theatrical Release Date: October 18, 1998 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews... Is it worth it? February 21, 2007 6 out of 13 found this review helpful If you think I am going to pay nearly thirty pounds for a DVD you must be joking. It does not matter how good it is, no DVD is worth such a high price. br /br /There are many good productions of Wuthering Heights and this one is no better or worse. Those asking such high prices should be ashamed of themselves and anyone paying such a high price for this DVD needs a reality check. For those that think October 13, 2005 8 out of 8 found this review helpful Harrowing and brilliant. Best version and closest to the book. Shame not widely available now, hunt it down. Melodrama bordering on farce June 11, 2004 7 out of 14 found this review helpful Kathy was great, although the adult Heathcliff seemed much older than he should have done. I thought all the acting was very good, but in spite of that I was quite disappointed by this version. Having watched several, I think it is the weakest. For one thing, I expected to see it set in the mid-19th century as usual, which I understand is when it was written; but all the costumes and hairstyles - and even the music (there is a short piece played on a harpsichord in one scene)- were from at least a century earlier, as were the inscriptions on the gravestones: I was reminded of the story of Lorna Doone. For the first time, I thought that the destructive obsession no longer works as the theme for a believable love story, perhaps because at no point was I able to switch into the Victorian (or should I say Bronte-esque) mindset that normally enables me as a viewer to get on and believe, and go with the flow of the story. Every character was just too emotional, too hysterical, too larger-than-life. I don't know if this is the way it was directed, or just that the Bronte type of angst has begun to irritate me. When Heathcliff dug up Cathy's grave and embraced the shrouded corpse, I'm afraid I started thinking canned laughter might be appropriate, perhaps with the hero saying "You're so thin, Cathy! You haven't been eating, have you..?" I must say, though, I loved the way the ghostly scenes were shot - that was clever. Wuthering Heights June 9, 2004 8 out of 10 found this review helpful Having read the book several times and watched probably nearly all of the tv and film productions of Wuthering Heights, I would rate this as one of the better ones. I thought the role of Cathy was played brilliantly and just how I would have imagined her. Also the parts of Linton and Nelly Dean were excellent and how I imagined them. The only one who disappointed me was Heathcliff himself; I found him to be the nicest Heathcliff I've ever seen and if Oliver Tobias or Oliver Reed were in this production it would have been just perfect. But it made up for it where other productions lacked, for example when Heathcliff dug up the grave of Cathy and I especially thought the ending was good, how they disappeared together as ghostly images over the moors. An almost impossible task March 24, 2004 7 out of 9 found this review helpful To make Emily Bronte`s 19th century novel into a movie is probably just as though as trying to make Tolkiens univers in Lord of the Rings into one. Not because of excessive monsters or strange worlds but because of all the underlying tension and madness the novel brings about. brHaving watched several attempts to make it a movie though I must say this comes close to what one could expect a director to get out of it. The enviroment and dark undertones is cleverly captured in the house of Wuthering Heights who sits in perfect contrast to the lighter friendlier house/mansion of Thrusscross Grange. The movie stays true to the book, more so than any movie up until this point. The casting for the carachter of Catherine Earnshaw is fantastic, best one so far, beautiful but at the same time rouge. The carachter of Linton is also very belivable, you get the feeling that he deeply cares for Catherine. In fact all the roles is played perfectly in this movie, except the crucial one of Heathcliff. This would have been the absolute best version without question had it not been for the weak and unbelivable carachter of the man protagonist. The movie fails on not casting the right person for this important role, and I could not help miss Ralph Fiennes portray of Heathcliff in the 1992 version of the movie. With him in this 98 version it would all have come togheter as the best piece yet.brStill, it is a very good representation of the book and I would certainly recomend it over any of the other movies made, but still it remains to be seen if we ever will get a perfect movie version of this amazing book.