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Jane Eyre

She sought refuge… and found a place haunted by secrets.

2011 · 2h · PG-13 Drama, Romance
Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga

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Overview

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

Top critics, in their words

All reviews
84%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Screenwriter Moira Buffini sticks pretty closely to the novel, and director Cary Fukunaga conjures a drab tone that nicely sets off the characters' violent but rigidly controlled passions.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh

This is no plain Jane.

David Jenkins, Time Out
Rotten

If the motion-picture industry had existed in 1847, the year Charlotte Bronte's novel appeared, it might have produced an adaptation much like this one.

Rafer Guzman, Newsday
Fresh

Somehow Wasikowska makes it all seem much more personal, more real. With her stark, starched dresses and blunt, elastic face, she draws you in, making both Jane's pain and incredible resolve tangible.

Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh

An atmospheric, absorbing version of the classic romance between an abandoned, plucky orphan and a wealthy, mysterious older man with a seriously Gothic secret.

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald

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