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Jude

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In late 19th-century England, Jude (Christopher Eccleston) aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella (Rachel Griffiths). But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue (Kate Winslet), courting tragedy every step of the way.
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Superb acting from a beautifully matched Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet make Jude well worth watching even as it struggles with its source material.

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly 09/07/2011
B
It's worth seeing Jude, a stark adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, just for the extraordinary performance of Christopher Eccleston as Jude Fawley. Go to Full Review
Derek Elley Variety 06/10/2008
Young English actress Kate Winslet adds luster and energy to Jude, a bold and generally successful attempt to adapt Thomas Hardy's final novel, Jude the Obscure, to the bigscreen. Go to Full Review
Desson Thomson Washington Post 08/19/2006
Without the benefit of Hardy's prose, the point of the movie is lost in the grim, grayish ether. Go to Full Review
Michael Atkinson Spin 12/27/2022
Far from another cuted-up, waistcoat- &-bustle Emma Thompson weekend getaway, Jude is stark, gnarly, and breathtaking. Go to Full Review
Sarah Boslaugh TheArtsStl 12/08/2022
5/10
What Jude misses by being so darned pretty is any sense of the magnitude of the harshness of Victorian society towards anyone, particularly women, whose life didn’t conform to the expected pieties. Go to Full Review
Peter Canavese Celluloid Dreams 07/21/2022
3/4
Beautifully shot adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel 'Jude The Obscure' -- a bit workmanlike, but solid, well-acted and artfully rendered. (Scorpion Releasing blu-ray). Go to Full Review
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Synopsis In late 19th-century England, Jude (Christopher Eccleston) aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella (Rachel Griffiths). But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue (Kate Winslet), courting tragedy every step of the way.
Director
Michael Winterbottom
Producer
Andrew Eaton
Screenwriter
Hossein Amini, Thomas Hardy
Distributor
Polygram, Gramercy Pictures
Production Co
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 18, 1996, Original
Box Office (Gross USA)
$419.3K
Runtime
2h 3m
Sound Mix
Surround
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