Lady Chatterley (1993)
Directed by Ken Russell
Genres - Drama, Romance |
Sub-Genres - Erotic Drama, Period Film |
Run Time - 120 min. |
Countries - United Kingdom |
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Another of writer/director Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence adaptations, Lady Chatterley (an amalgam of three Lawrence novels) was first shown as a British TV miniseries on BBC1 from June 6 to 27, 1993. In recounting the familiar details of young, bored Lady Chatterley (Joely Richardson), her elderly, infirm husband (James Wilby), and her hot-blooded stable-groom lover, Manners (Sean Bean), Russell took the opportunity to both celebrate and savage the British upper classes of the 1920s. One brief sequence of full frontal nudity caused a minor scandal in Britain, though by Ken Russell standards the scene was a model of taste and decorum. After its initial TV run, Lady Chatterley was edited down from 220 to 110 minutes and released theatrically in the United States.
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extramarital-affair, horse, husband-and-wife, invalid, paralysis, scandal, stable [building], stable-boy, upper-class, world-war