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- BFI identifier451884
- Date1996 (Copyright)
1996-10-04 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisSet in late nineteenth century in Hardy's fictional 'Wessex', story concerns the ambitions of a young country lad to better himself through education, his mistaken marriage and his ultimate involvement with another woman. (Synopsis) Film adaptation of the novel 'Jude the Obscure' by Thomas Hardy. Set in the late nineteenth century, the story of a stonemason who hopes to better himself by going to university. After a brief and unhappy marriage to the daughter of a local pig farmer, he becomes involved with his more sophisticated cousin, whose own marriage fails. Their illicit relationship ends tragically. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- CreditsDirector: Michael Winterbottom
©: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Production Company: Revolution Films
view all - CastChristopher Eccleston (Jude Fawley)
Kate Winslet (Sue Bridehead)
Liam Cunningham (Phillotson)
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Title
Jude (Original)
Jude the Obscure (Working)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/7A89-E3C7-4022-E308-137B-HCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Scripts / DocumentsScript - Script type: Shooting Script - 2nd Draft - SCR-2664
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-451884
Small pressbook held. Information folder held.
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view all - ArticlesLiterature/Film Quarterly v34 n3 2006 - ArticleSight and Sound v11 n2 February 2001 - ArticleEmpire n89 November 1996 - ReviewCinema Papers n113 December 1996 - Credits, ReviewVariety 13 May 1996 - Credits, Reviewview all
- Books
- Jude
Work - 451884 - 1996 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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