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Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
The sensual film based on the acclaimed novel by Jean Rhys.
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Romance
Released: 1993-04-16
Runtime: 98 min.
In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry to claim her inheritance and sets her sights on Rochester, an Englishman eerily similar to Mason.
