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Director:
Beeban Kidron
Writers:
Jeanette Winterson (novel)
Jeanette Winterson (screenplay)
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Release Date:
10 January 1990 (UK) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Jessica's extraordinarily strong will and heart enables her to rebel against her fanatical, cult-like upbringing... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
8 wins & 6 nominations more
User Comments:
Fantastic, but bearing scars... more (10 total)

Cast

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Charlotte Coleman ... Jess
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mark Aspinall ... Ian
Emily Aston ... Small Jess
Sharon Bower ... Mrs. Vole
Cathryn Bradshaw ... Melanie
Kay Clayton ... Gypsy Woman
Kenneth Cranham ... Pastor Finch
Freda Dowie ... Mrs. Green
James Duggan ... Second fisherman
Pam Ferris ... Mrs. Arkwright
Peter Gordon ... William
Richard Henders ... Graham
Barbara Hicks ... Cissy
Celia Imrie ... Miss Jewsbury
Ken Kitson ... First fisherman
Maggie Lane ... First ice cream woman
Geraldine McEwan ... Mother
Chris McNulty ... Child in Classroom
Katy Murphy ... Mrs Virtue

Tania Rodrigues ... Katy
Bill Rogers ... Ice Cream Man
Darren Scott ... Boy Next Door
Norma Shebbeare ... Dust Pan
Elizabeth Spriggs ... May
Tamar Swade ... Church pianist

David Thewlis ... Doctor
Sophie Thursfield ... Jess's real mother
Roger Walker ... Fishmonger
Mandy Walsh ... Second ice cream woman
Margery Withers ... Elsie
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Runtime:
UK:55 min (3 episodes)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Filming Locations:
Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK more
Company:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful.
Fantastic, but bearing scars..., 21 March 2008
7/10
Author: mat-223 from United Kingdom

I read the book, and loved it, having to give it back to the library before the Easter long- weekend left me little to do, so after some searching (albeit mainly on YouTube) found this adaptation.

This adaptation was written by Winterson herself, so I expected it to be good, and it was. The acting was tremendous and it stayed quite faithful to the book, as you would expect. Some have accused this adaptation over being over-dramatic and over-exaggerated , particularly with the portrayal of the church and the character of Jeanette's (who in the adaptation is now called Jessica) mother, and to an extent it is, but I feel that this was how it was written in the book and so is fair enough.

Where it fails, however, is that it clearly bears the scars of the transition from page to screen. Mainly through how the cutaway fairy-tales that, whilst about different characters, are significant and relevant in their themes to the main story, are cut out. This was particularly sad for me as I was eager to see how this would be done. The most likely explanation is that this would cut down the adaptation to a happy three-parter, so could this be understandable?

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