A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is ...
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Title: Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
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| Karina Lombard | ... | Antoinette Cosway | |
| Nathaniel Parker | ... | Edward Rochester | |
| Rachel Ward | ... | Annette Cosway | |
| Michael York | ... | Paul Mason | |
| Martine Beswick | ... | Aunt Cora (as Martine Beswicke) | |
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Claudia Robinson | ... | Christophene |
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Huw Williams | ... | Richard Mason |
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Casey Berna | ... | Young Antoinette |
| Rowena King | ... | Amelie | |
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Ben Thomas | ... | Daniel Cosway |
| Paul Campbell | ... | Young Bull | |
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Audbrey Pilatus | ... | Drummer |
| Ancile Gloudon | ... | Nelson | |
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Dominic Needham | ... | Pierre |
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Kevin Thomas | ... | Benbow |
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A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood and her mother. Slowly, this secret begins to erode this perfect relationship and, perhaps, her mother's story will begin again...with her. Written by Luis Carvacho <lcarvach@lascar.puc.cl>
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from "Quartet, Opus 64 No. 5"
Written by Joseph Haydn (as Haydn)
Arranged by Charlotte Georg (as Les Peel)
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The picture was classified and rated with a restricted NC-17 rating in the USA due to its explicit sexual content. Distributor Fine Line Features decided not to appeal the decision in order to try and gain a lower classification rating to make the movie marketable and able for younger audiences to attend. The New York Times reported "Fine Line Features, the art-film division of New Line Cinema, has accepted the rating for 'Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)' which includes male frontal nudity". See more »Alternate Versions
Unrated version runs a few seconds longer than the NC-17 version. See more »Soundtracks
Minuetfrom "Quartet, Opus 64 No. 5"
Written by Joseph Haydn (as Haydn)
Arranged by Charlotte Georg (as Les Peel)
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Country:
AustraliaLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
16 April 1993 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Wide Sargasso Sea See more »Filming Locations:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$33,806, 18 April 1993Gross USA:
$1,614,784Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$1,614,784Company Credits
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Jean Rhys has taken seven years to finish the novel, on which the movie is supposed to be based on. However, this rated film seems to be only concentrating on the sexual relationship between Rochester and Antoinette, as well as Sandi and Antoinette. The relationship with Sandi is deliberately kept as question marks for readers to ponder upon in the novel, but here in the movie it is explicitly interpreted and the sympathy created by Rhys is lost. But the movie is nevertheless a representation of colors in the Caribbeans--red, purple, blue and green--the exotic side of life that has repeled Rochester.