Jane Eyre (1996)

1996 • NR • Series • Catalog pick

An orphaned young girl, Jane Eyre (Anna Paquin, True Blood), suffers humiliation and abuse at the hands of her aunt (Fiona Shaw, Killing Eve) and is subsequently banished to a strict boarding school for several years. Upon her release, the adult Jane (Charlotte Gainsbourg, I'm Not There) becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, caring for the child of Mr. Rochester (William Hurt, Goliath). She soon finds herself in a passionate romance with the handsome and mysterious Mr. Rochester. Swept up in the possibility of a happy new life, Jan eis shattered when terrible, untold secrets from his past are revealed, threaning to tear her and her lover apart forever