Jane Eyre (2011) on Netflix
Raised in hardship, Jane Eyre becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall. There she meets its cold, abrupt master, Edward Rochester, and the two are drawn to each other.
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- Rotten Tomatoes84%
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Plot summary
Jane Eyre grows up an orphan, mistreated by her cousin John and her aunt Mrs. Reed, then sent to the Lowood School, where Mr. Brocklehurst rules harshly and she befriends Helen Burns. At eighteen she leaves Lowood to become a governess at Thornfield Hall, teaching Adèle Varens, the master's young French ward, and the housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax welcomes her. On the road she helps Edward Rochester after his horse throws him, and learns he is the master of Thornfield. The two grow close. One night Jane finds Rochester's room on fire and helps put out the flames; he tells her to say nothing about it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jane Eyre (2011)
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- Mia Wasikowska nearly got hypothermia on the second day of the shoot while filming the rain sequence in the cold of Yorkshire and Derbyshire, where, Cary Fukunaga said, the weather is extreme and changes all the time.
- Fukunaga looked at some 60 residences to represent Thornfield Hall before settling on Haddon Hall because it had not undergone much redecorating; the same location was also used in the 2006 series of Jane Eyre.
- The film opened on just four screens in the United States on 11 March 2011 and grossed $182,885, a per cinema average of $45,721, the best speciality debut of 2011.
- On casting Rochester, Cary Fukunaga said that while there were actors closer in appearance, he felt Michael Fassbender had the spirit of the character.
- Moira Buffini's screenplay had already appeared on the 2008 Brit List, a film-industry-compiled list of the best unproduced screenplays in British film.
