May 2019 Acorn TV Calendar
Monday, May 20th
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Golden Globe nominee Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Town, The Prestige) and Rafe Spall (Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, The Big Short) star in this Jean Rhys adaptation, a prequel to Charlotte Bront�'s Jane Eyre. The tale begins in Jamaica of the 1830s, with Englishman Edward Rochester (Rafe Spall) arriving in Jamaica to stake out a fortune. He meets and falls hard for Antoinette Cosway (Rebecca Hall), a Creole heiress, who gives herself to him unquestioningly, and shares her dowry - including a sprawling, palatial honeymoon manor. For a time, all is bliss, but soon lust devolves into paranoid fear, betrayal, and tragedy. (2006, TV Movie)
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