Movie
1996
Jane Eyre is a 1996 romantic drama film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre. This Hollywood version, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, is similar to the original novel, although it compresses and eliminates most of the plot in the last quarter of the book to condense it into a two-hour film.
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In mid 1990s Hollywood was launching Jane Austen novels' screen adaptations with such tempo leading many to believe that in very near future there wouldn't be any Austen novels left to adapt. Thankfully, Jane Austen wasn't the only 19th Century English female novelist, so Hollywood studios had more options in exploiting Jane Austen craze. One of those novelists was Charlotte Bronte, whose novel *Jane Eyre* had been…More
