Jude

Plot

A stonemason steadfastly pursues a cousin he loves. However their love is troubled as he is married to a woman who tricked him into marriage and she is married to an abusive nobleman…

Release Year: 1996

Rating: 7.0/10 (5,904 voted)

Critic's Score: 68/100

Director:
Michael Winterbottom

Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet, Liam Cunningham

Storyline
A stonemason steadfastly pursues a cousin he loves. However their love is troubled as he is married to a woman who tricked him into marriage and she is married to an abusive nobleman. Living out of wedlock, the two are rejected by the townspeople leaving them to struggle in abject poverty.

Writers: Hossein Amini, Thomas Hardy

Cast:

Christopher Eccleston
–

Jude Fawley

Kate Winslet
–

Sue Bridehead

Liam Cunningham
–

Phillotson

Rachel Griffiths
–

Arabella

June Whitfield
–

Aunt Drusilla

Ross Colvin Turnbull
–

Little Jude

James Daley
–

Jude as a Boy

Berwick Kaler
–

Farmer Troutham

Sean McKenzie
–

1st Stone Mason

Richard Albrecht
–

2nd Stone Mason

Caitlin Bossley
–

Anny

Emma Turner
–

Sarah

Lorraine Hilton
–

Shopkeeper

James Nesbitt
–

Uncle Joe

Mark Lambert
–

Tinker Taylor

Taglines:
A time without pity. A society without mercy. A love without equal.

Release Date: 18 October 1996

Filming Locations: Beamish Open Air Museum, Beamish, County Durham, England, UK

Box Office Details

Budget: $7,000,000

(estimated)

Opening Weekend: $31,850
(USA)
(20 October 1996)
(6 Screens)

Gross: $405,144
(USA)
(22 December 1996)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

123 min
 |
Germany: 118 min
(TV version)

Did You Know?

Trivia:

Christopher Eccleston (Jude Fawley) and David Tennant (Drunk Undergraduate) both later portrayed the Doctor in
Doctor Who. The former played the Ninth Doctor from March to June 2005 while the latter played the Tenth Doctor from June 2005 to January 2010.

Quotes:

Sue:
Haven't we been punished enough?

User Review

A naturalistic tragedy of immense proportions

Rating: 10/10

I started watching this movie after having read the viewers' comments, so
I
was prepared for the depression inducing effect everyone kept talking
about.
Seems like you are never prepared enough for this movie.
Sadness and tragedy are in the air right from beginning, you can feel
them
all the time, even when things start getting better for the two
protagonists
you know it can't last…because they are doomed, losers, not meant to be
happy together. And yet the love they share is the purest and most
devoting
love I have ever seen on screen; it stunned me how true Jude was to Sue,
and
how brave Sue was, accepting Jude jr. as one of her own, no questions
asked.
Many people might find the scene of Sue giving birth and being watched by
Jude jr. disturbing, yet it is essential to understand his later deeds, at
least partly. The climax of the tragedy is so emotional and so immensely
cruel it rips your heart out. I felt the theatre was falling into pieces
and
so were we, watching this emotional tornado, weeping like possessed. The
experience of this movie will make you ponder life, love and death, it
will
make you understand how important it is to teach your children well and
never make them feel undesired. It will make you realize how important it
is
to always think twice before commiting yourself, even in the modern world
flooded with divorces. It will show you what it means to really love,
completely and uncompromisingly.
I highly recommend this masterpiece, a tale of two beautiful, unfortunate
heros ahead their time, doomed by cruelest fate imaginable.
10/10