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Firelight (1998)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:6
Rotten:7
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Predictable and dull.
Synopsis: 1938. A pretty governess agrees to bear the child of an English landowner who will in turn pay off her father's debt. Seven years later, she accepts a job as a governess to a landowner on a Sussex... 1938. A pretty governess agrees to bear the child of an English landowner who will in turn pay off her father's debt. Seven years later, she accepts a job as a governess to a landowner on a Sussex estate. When she arrives, she discovers that the child for whom she has been hired as a governess is her daughter. She must keep the secret to herself, even as it begins to tear her apart. [More]
Starring: Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Kevin Anderson, Lia Williams
Starring: Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Kevin Anderson, Lia Williams, Joss Ackland
Director: William Nicholson
Director: William Nicholson
Screenwriter: William Nicholson
Composer: Christopher Gunning
Producer: Brian Eastman
Reviews for Firelight
I wish someone would explain to me why all these 19th Century costume dramas need to be so cheerless, so formal, and so godawful boring.
What Firelight most tellingly lacks are riveting star performances to inevitably reel us in to its romantic absurdity.
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