The Return of the Native (1994)
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Unlike the barren and forbidding moors elsewhere in England, Return of the Native's Egdon Heath attires itself in vibrant wildflowers, mossy hillsides, winding streams, arching footbridges, and undulant meadows. An enchantress would be at home in this place, but not Eustacia Vye, portrayed by… More Unlike the barren and forbidding moors elsewhere in England, Return of the Native's Egdon Heath attires itself in vibrant wildflowers, mossy hillsides, winding streams, arching footbridges, and undulant meadows. An enchantress would be at home in this place, but not Eustacia Vye, portrayed by Zeta-Jones. Though coveted by every man in Egdon Heath -- and every boy old enough to stare -- the beautiful Eustacia longs for the smoking chimneys and broad stone buildings of Paris. When a native of Egdon Heath, Clym Yeobright Ray Stevenson, returns from his job in Paris as a jeweler, Vye stuns him with her beauty and marries him in hopes of persuading him to take her to Paris. But, alas, Clym is a clod at heart. He vows to remain in Egdon Heath to teach and edify. After his eyesight deteriorates, Eustacia turns her attentions to rakish Damon Wildeve Clive Owen, and the plot begins to churn and curdle. ~ Mike Cummings, Rovi
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
Reveals how the obsession of one breathtakingly beautiful woman upsets the tranquil equilibrium of a rural English community.
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Cast
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Catherine Zeta-Jones
as Eustacia Vye
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Clive Owen
as Damon Wildeve
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Ray Stevenson
as Clym Yeobright
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Steven Mackintosh
as Diggory Venn
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Claire Skinner
as Thomasin
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Paul Rogers
as Captain Vye
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Joan Plowright
as Mrs. Yeobright
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John Breslin
as Vicar
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Daniel Newman
as Mummer
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Britta Smith
as Olly Dowden
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Celia Imrie
as Susan Nunsuch
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Peter Wight
as Timothy
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John Boswall
as Granfer Cande
