Tess of D'Urbervilles [VHS]

Zoom+
	Actor(s):	Justine Waddell Jason Flemyng Oliver Milburn John McEnery Lesley Dunlop
	Video by:	A&E Home Video
	Sales Rank:	245888

	See full description with MP3 Downloads

The prices and shipment conditions

Ship from	Condition	Condition Note	Availability	Price	Quantity	Buy Now
All	New		Usually ships in 1-2 business days	$17.96

Product Details/Specifications

Actor(s):
Justine Waddell
Jason Flemyng
Oliver Milburn
John McEnery
Lesley Dunlop

Creators:
Richard Greatrex (Cinematographer)
Peter Davies (Editor)
Delia Fine (Producer)
Sally Head (Producer)
Sarah Wilson (Producer)
Ted Whitehead (Writer)
Thomas Hardy (Writer)

Director(s):
Ian Sharp

Recording label: A&E Home Video
EAN: 9780767010481
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 0767010485
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC,
Release Date: 1998-09-04
Universal product code (UPC): 733961171303
Number of discs: 2
Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)

Description
One of the most memorable heroines in literature comes to life in this stunning adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s most passionate work. Starring Justine Waddell (Anna Kareina).

Amazon.com
This handsome made-for-television British-American coproduction uses the longer format of the two-part film to explore the characters of Thomas Hardy's novel with an easy pace. After her mother sends her to distant, moneyed relatives, Tess, played by the striking Justine Waddell, grows from naive but willful young British beauty to determined mother to sad martyr. At the hands of "cousin" Alec (the darkly charming Jason Flemyng), a womanizing, self-centered dandy, Tess begins her lessons on the social double standard, made all the more difficult given her own demanding personal code. A blond, blue-eyed, and beautiful gentleman farmer appropriately named Angel (Oliver Milburn) seems to offer Tess her salvation, but her past hovers over her like a curse and even now threatens her happiness. Director Ian Sharp's handsome presentation makes the most of the picaresque British countryside, an often beautiful, sometimes chilly, and at times inhospitable and unfriendly world. If this interpretation is not as gripping as Roman Polanski's 1979 film Tess, it offers a richer, more complex set of characters, and Sharp's earthy palette and subdued cinematic approach creates a vivid world far from the quaint, colorful visions of most theatrical presentations of historical England. --Sean Axmaker

Running time: 180 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)