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[elmcitymaven 9,712]

I was trying to find this made for TV movie that's about twenty years old or so but it fits the UK forum to a "T". It's about this free wheeling fun loving woman brought up in the Caribbean on a plantation who hooks up with this Englishman (young English lord). Eventually she leaves the island with him for England...against her wishes, and she becomes so depressed by the stuffiness of the people there, weather, and lifestyle that she burns the house down with her in it...suicide. It's based in the 18th 19th century. I want to say Barbara Carrara is in it, but it didn't check out on wiki. Seriously though that thread over there is like watching paint dry.

Sounds like Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Great book! It's essentially a prequel of sorts to Wuthering Heights.

Didn't know there was a film adaptation -- I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

[Alex & Rachel 78]

Sounds like Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Great book! It's essentially a prequel of sorts to Wuthering Heights.

Didn't know there was a film adaptation -- I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

Nope - Jane Eyre! It's the story from the perspective of the mad wife.

However, I don't see that it was adapted for TV twenty years ago... there's a recent adaptation, but not an old one.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Sounds like Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Great book! It's essentially a prequel of sorts to Wuthering Heights.

Didn't know there was a film adaptation -- I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108565/ <---- I would have never guessed it. I was fishing in the dark on google trying to figure out the title of that movie. That be the one though...you nailed it. Great movie up until the time she sails for England...then it got depressing especially when she offed herself at the end of the movie.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Nope - Jane Eyre! It's the story from the perspective of the mad wife.

However, I don't see that it was adapted for TV twenty years ago... there's a recent adaptation, but not an old one.

DURRR! English major FAIL.

[Inna & Brian 11]

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/346422-spotted-#######/page__view__findpost__p__5098575 <---- It's not like I didn't give them a chance to save that thread....and they still blew it.

Meh. I lost interest when they said it is best to limit it to 4 or 5 times a week.

[Empress of Groovy 373]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108565/ <---- I would have never guessed it. I was fishing in the dark on google trying to figure out the title of that movie. That be the one though...you nailed it. Great movie up until the time she sails for England...then it got depressing especially when she offed herself at the end of the movie.

The Brits* are among the best when it comes to grimness. Come to think of it, Russians are no slouches in that category either.

*In this case, sorta British?

Edited January 12, 2012 by Empress of Groovy

[Rebecca Jo 1,962]

The Brits* are among the best when it comes to grimness. Come to think of it, Russians are no slouches in that category either.

*In this case, sorta British?

Pick your favorite moment of literary grimness.

Anna Karenina throwing herself on the train tracks.

Or Sydney Carton on the block.

[visaveteran1 33]

Who left the gate open and let all these Brits in? Damn...I turn my back for a minute and the forum is infested with them!

Edited January 13, 2012 by visaveteran1

[Empress of Groovy 373]

Who left the gate open and let all these Brits in? Damn...I turn my back for a minute and the forum is infested with them!

Well, hello, good sir! Fancy a spot of spotted #######?

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Meh. I lost interest when they said it is best to limit it to 4 or 5 times a week.

Who left the gate open and let all these Brits in? Damn...I turn my back for a minute and the forum is infested with them!

I think we just got invaded and didn't even notice it until it was too late.

[eekee 182]

Quick, someone say something sexist.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Quick, someone say something sexist.

Quick thinking eekee.

Christ...I'm trying to come up with something and I'm drawing a blank. This is what happens when someone post in the UK forum...I'm all fckd up now.

[eekee 182]

We're in trouble now

[Empress of Groovy 373]

I predict a quick recovery.

[Empress of Groovy 373]

Quick thinking eekee.

Christ...I'm trying to come up with something and I'm drawing a blank. This is what happens when someone post in the UK forum...I'm all fckd up now.

Kip: Think MILILF!