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Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 16, 1993

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Thriller, Drama, Romance

User Score

50%

Original Title

Wide Sargasso Sea

Production Companies

Fine Line Features, Sargasso Productions, Laughing Kookaburra Productions

Director

John Duigan

Description

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.