Choke...gasp...gag...
I can't tell if you are being serious or not, but if you are serious, well...I'd have to assume you haven't seen any other adaptations of the book, especially the one from 1939. Or does the age of that movie automatically make you discount it?
This was nothing more than a typical Lifetime movie. Meaning, serviceable, but not challenging or original in any way. Plus it was completely unbelievable. The book, and first movie adaptation, were set in a time and place where you could believe the plot. Here, it was ludicrous.
The worst part was Paloma Kwiatkowski's Cathy. I don't think she changed expression once in the movie. You certainly could never tell what she was feeling without the narration. I haven't seen her in anything else; I wonder if she is this bad in general, or if her performance was the fault of the director?
"Heath" was almost as bad. I'll blame that on the director, since there was so little character development for him that we knew more about him from the narration than from anything else. When a movie depends on narration to tell you the feelings and motives of the characters, you know there is a problem.
I gave the movie 6 stars. I was being generous, giving it some slack because it was so typical of a Lifetime movie.
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