The Turn of the Screw Movie Review 1999

Staff rating

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Solid TV adaptation of the Henry James novel boasts some fine performances in a now familiar story. Miss (May) is the young, too-impressionable governess at Bly manor, whose charges are the overly well-behaved Miles (Sowerbutts) and his younger sister, Flora (Robinson). Soon Miss is seeing ghosts--those of the former governess and another servant, Peter Quint (Salkey), whom she believes are corrupting her innocent children. But maybe the emotional young woman is simply crazy.

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Available on Running time 80 minutes. Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sanity Check, Supernatural Horror, Books to Film: Henry James, Nannies & Governesses, Childhood Visions, Ghosts, Ghouls, & Goblins

Screenplay

Nick Dear

Cast

Jodhi May, Pam Ferris, Colin Firth, Joe Sowerbutts, Grace Robinson, Jason Salkey, Caroline Pegg, Jenny Howe

Cinematography

David Odd

Director

Ben Bolt

Music

Adrian Johnston

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