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Wuthering HeightsLabel: Paramount Home EntertainmentDescription: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The classic saga of love lost is retold in this adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel. AMAZON REVIEW Peter Kosminsky's 1992 adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights goes to the extreme of casting Sinead O'Connor in a brief bit as Bronte herself but the film still doesn't approach the accomplishment of William Wyler's classic 1939 production (with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon) or subsequent versions by Luis Bunuel and Robert Fuest. That doesn't make it unwatchable however: it still offers The English Patient costars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche as doomed lovers Heathcliff and Cathy. Binoche is a bit washed-out but Fiennes makes a strong impression as the rejected labourer who makes his fortune and exacts a vengeance. Unlike Wyler's film this one covers all the chapters of Bronte's book but it is sodden with misery and lacks all grace. --Tom Keogh.