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7.2/10
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A governess agrees to bear a child to help her father.A governess agrees to bear a child to help her father.A governess agrees to bear a child to help her father.
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- 2 wins & 2 nominations
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- TriviaThough he had been in the film industry as a scriptwriter for many years, this was William Nicholson's first directed film.
- GoofsAfter seven years, despite evolving fashions, neither hero nor heroine have made any change in hairdo or style of clothes. Nor do they look a day older.
- Quotes
Elisabeth: Do you know about Firelight?
Louisa: What about it?
Elisabeth: It's a kind of magic. Firelight makes time stand still. When you put out the lamps and sit in the firelight's glow there aren't any rules any more.
[blows out lamp]
Elisabeth: You can do what you want, say what you want, be what you want, and when the lamps are lit again, time starts again, and everything you said or did is forgotten. More than forgotten it never happened.
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Seen it 5 times.
The artistry of this movie is not evident the first time you watch it because you notice nothing but the actors' brown eyes and the blue cold rooms of the mansion.
But watch it a few more times and you realize how balanced the story is, how themes of birth and death parallel heat and cold, love and hate.
The script is simple because silence and secrecy drive the plot. Compared to Jane Eyre, it is rather sparse, but so what?
I gave it a 10.
But watch it a few more times and you realize how balanced the story is, how themes of birth and death parallel heat and cold, love and hate.
The script is simple because silence and secrecy drive the plot. Compared to Jane Eyre, it is rather sparse, but so what?
I gave it a 10.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $785,482
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $135,401
- Sep 7, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $785,482
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