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Title: The Return of the Native (TV Movie 1994)
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Eustacia Vye
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| Clive Owen | ... |
Damon Wildeve
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Clym Yeobright
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Diggory Venn
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Thomasin
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Captain Vye
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Mrs. Yeobright
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Susan Nunsuch
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Humphrey
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Timothy
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Sam
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Charley
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John Boswall | ... |
Granfer Cande
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Christian Cande
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Johnny
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Reddleman Diggory Venn drives slowly across the heath, carrying a hidden passenger in the back of his van. When darkness falls, the country folk light bonfires on the hills, emphasizing the pagan spirit of the heath and its denizens.
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
4 December 1994 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Hallmark Hall of Fame: The Return of the Native (#44.1) See more »Filming Locations:
Exmoor National Park, Devon, England, UKCompany Credits
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British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Craig Anderson Productions, Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions See more »
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Thomas Hardy is one of my favorite authors. Some truly wonderful movies have been made from his novels ("Far From the Madding Crowd," "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," "The Mayor of Casterbridge"), and I had high hopes for this one. The Hallmark-Hall-of-Fame-ification of "Return of the Native" totally wrecked it. The cast was terrific, the photography excellent, but the script was dismal and the direction positively ruinous. People walked up to people, said lines, walked away. A meager excitement developed when Clive Owen and Catherine Zeta Jones (very young, very beautiful) exchanged a bit of flesh-pressing, but even Clive, who is a superb actor, couldn't save it. It was awash with the usual Hallmark "romantic" strings background music and pretend bumpkins offering plot exposition, and what could have been dynamite turned out to be awful. The richness of the above three movies was commpletely absent.