Wuthering Heights: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Dark and moody adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel with Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley
Year: 2009
Certificate: 15
If you've read the novel by Emily Brontë, you'll know that most TV adaptations and films largely dispense with the novel's miserable second half, focusing on the romance between Catherine and her foster brother Heathcliff, and not the anger, cruelty and resentment that the last part of the book descends into. Catherine and especially Heathcliff also get softened and made more sympathetic.
This version, starring Charlotte Riley and her future husband Tom Hardy as the doomed lovers, digs a little deeper, and how you feel about it will depend on how you engage with the two leads. Hardy definitely puts the brute into Heathcliff and there is a darkness here that isn't just from the fog on the moors. There's also an attempt to capture the three-generation sweep of the novel and of the corrupting force of love turned to a bitter, twisted obsession. (Two episodes)
