Amanda Root

Enduring Love -- Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident.

Persuasion -- Seven years after their breakup, a spinster and an impoverished sailor attempt to rekindle their aborted romance.

Joe (Daniel Craig, Road to Perdition) is an accomplished writer and professor whose rational life is thrust into a downward spiral of guilt after witnessing a freak, fatal ballooning accident while picnicking with girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton, Minority Report). Jed (Rhys Ifans, Notting Hill), another man involved in that fateful day, seeks out Joe looking for consolation and a way to make sense of this tragedy they’ve both witnessed. Jed soon becomes as inescapable to Joe as his guilt, and both men find themselves hurtling towards a final, terrifying choice driven by the destructive nature of obsession or the true endurance of love. Based on the acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan, Enduring Love is a psychological thriller about how fate shapes our relationships, how accidents can change our lives forever and how meaning is unraveled from sheer chaos.

Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident.

Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident.

Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident.

A young couple's stormy romance scandalizes English society in this acclaimed adaptation of Jane Austen's classic love story. Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds of the Royal Shakespeare Company are the star-crossed lovers, Anne and Wentworth, whose passion is thwarted by a scheming socialite. Eight yearslater, when Anne is considered an old maid and her once-rich family is on the verge of bankruptcy, Wentworth returns. Will their second chance at love be ruined by the social conventions that destroyed it once? Or will the heart be persuaded by rules of its own? Adding flirtatious fun to Austen's irresistible romance, Persuasion takes your breathe away! A dazzling five-star feast.

Academy Award winner William Hurt (1985 Best ActorKiss Of the Spider Woman, Changing Lanes) leads an all-star cast in this story of passion and intrigue! Jane Eyre (Charlotte Cainsbourg) is a young woman whose will to overcome a life of hardship leads her into a passionate romance with a handsome and mysterious gentleman (Hurt). Swept up in the possibility of a happy new life, Jane is shattered when terrible, untold secrets from his past are revealed, threatening to tear her and her lover apart forever! Also featuring the talents of Anna Paquin (XMen, The Piano), Joan Plowright (Tea With Mussolini) and sexy Elle Macpherson (The Edge), this enduring tale has captivated moviegoers everywhere, just as Charlotte Bronte's classic bestseller has entertained readers for generations!

Director Franco Zeffirelli cemented his reputation as a faithful custodian of the classics with this adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece Jane Eyre, the story of an orphan (Anna Paquin) forced to endure life at a harsh boarding school. As Jane grows into an independent, strong-willed woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg), she takes a governess job at Thornton Hall and falls in love with the estate's brooding owner, Mr. Rochester (William Hurt).

Based on the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte, Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation is a vibrant and visually stunning rendition of the celebrated story of a plain and penniless governess who overcomes seemingly insurmountable obstacles to claim the man she loves.

Seven years after their breakup, a spinster and an impoverished sailor attempt to rekindle their aborted romance.

Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen. Anne is, by the conventions of society, considered an old maid when she remains unmarried at 27. However, a second chance arrives when her former love, Captain Wentworth, returns from the Napoleonic Wars.