Jude

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Jude

R,

1996,

2h 3m,

Drama

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80%

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73%

5,000+ Ratings

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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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Critics Consensus

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

Sep 7, 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.

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Derek Elley

Variety

Jun 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.

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Aug 19, 2006

Without the benefit of Hardy's prose, the point of the movie is lost in the grim, grayish ether.

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Michael Atkinson

Spin

Dec 27, 2022

Far from another cuted-up, waistcoat- &-bustle Emma Thompson weekend getaway, Jude is stark, gnarly, and breathtaking.

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Sarah Boslaugh

TheArtsStl

Dec 8, 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.

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Peter Canavese

Celluloid Dreams

Jul 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).

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Albus R

Aug 9, 2017

sensible adaptation of a classic novel.

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Michael Winterbottom

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Kate Winslet

Sue Bridehead

Christopher Eccleston

Jude Fawley

Rachel Griffiths

Arabella

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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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