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The lowdown: This 1998 telemovie version of one of English literature's most famous (and most filmed) novels stars Robert Cavanah and Orla Brady as the doomed lovers, Heathcliff and Cathy. The story opens with Joseph Lockwood visiting Wuthering Heights, the home of a landowner named Heathcliff. Lockwood is renting a large estate called Thrushcross Grange from Heathcliff, and calls to pay his respects. However, the hour is late and a storm is coming, so Lockwood is forced to spend the night at Wuthering Heights. He cannot sleep, so he goes wandering through the house and finds a diary belonging to a young woman. He falls asleep while reading, and is woken by a noise outside. He is startled to see a young girl at the window, asking to be let in out of the storm. An angry Heathcliff sends him packing, and thinks the girl is his long-lost love, Cathy, whose diary Lockwood had been reading. The story then goes back to 30 years earlier, when a young Catherine meets Healthcliff, a foundling who is brought home by Catherine's father. The viewer then learns of the unrequited love between Healthcliff and Cathy, and the events that unfold over the next three decades. And you will just have to watch the film - or read the novel - to find out how the story unfolds : ) This version is a good adaptation
of the original novel, although being less than two hours long it cannot
do justice to
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