Can't believe it...
I'm the only one to talk about this movie!!
Catherine zeta-jones is so beautiful in this movie. You must watch it. It's based on the classic book by Thomas Hardy. I like it!
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I studied this book for college and therefore watched this film...book was a goodish read - and the film was absolutely hilarious! Seeing Catherine Zeta- Jones and Clive Owen starring together in this film was brilliant! Clive looking exceptionally hot as the lusty, raw Wildeve..mmmmm... and the part where Clym loses his sight! FUNNIEST THING I'VE SEEN IN AGES! Everyone needs to see this film- if not to enjoy some classic British period Drama and a nice Hardy yarn, then to have a good laugh at Mrs Yeobright dying from an adder bite! ooooh mercy!
Watching them kiss is like watching Rhinos do battle....- Gately
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shareDidn't compare to the book but it was still interesting to see a young Catherine Zeta-Jones play Eustacia. It was also hilarious to see Clive Owen playing Daemon. His hair was atrocious. I kept laughing throughout the whole movie.
shareClive Owen, as handsome as he is, seemed to have been stuck with a lot of bad hair dos (or wigs) early in his career. Check out the inferior 1990 version of "Lorna Doone" - the same awful hair!!! And it doesn't hold a candle to the A&E version!! He is sexy, though!!
shareI finally got around to watching this last night and was pleasantly surprised.
Zeta-Jones was absolutely stunning and Clive Owen was hot. I expected something the same as Lorna Doone but the wig and the facial hair weren't all that bad. Ray Stevenson's performance was laughable but I guess everyone has to learn somewhere and it was a very early movie in his career.
I wasn't going to buy it after reading the comments here and on Amazon but the thing that swayed me was that Hallmark movies are generally quite good - at least the few I've seen were and it cost me about the same as it would have been to rent it.
Really, there isn't, and never will be, a a better version of The Return of the Native than this.
The other actors are generally poor, but the reason to watch it is Catherine Zeta-Jones -- who IS Eustacia Vye. It's the role she was born to play.
No other actresses possesses the kind of superhuman beauty that she does -- which is precisely the kind of beauty that Eustacia is supposed to possess. To play the role of Eustacia, an actress has to be so gorgeous that the viewer actually believes that she can drive men crazy with longing for her. Modern Hollywood actresses simply do not have that kind of epic beauty -- except for her. Plus, CZJ plays the role with precisely the blend of intoxicating vanity (mixed with bemusement) that Hardy wrote into the character.
It's a shame that the other actors in this version aren't up to the task, but still, Eustacia Vye is the heart and soul of the book. She completely dominates it, which is why any adaptation succeeds or fails based on how believeable the actress playing her part is. And no one will ever embody this role better.
I would love to have met her then and go down on her and taste her would be a dream come true !
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