WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Year: 2011
UK: Artificial Eye
Cast: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Solomon Glave, Shannon Beer, Steve Evets, Nichola Burley, Oliver Milburn, Paul Hilton, Simone Jackson, Lee Shaw, Amy Wren
Director: Andrea Arnold
Country: UK
UK: 128 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language, once very strong, racist terms & animal killings
UK Release Date: 11 November 2011


Synopsis

A Yorkshire hill farmer on a visit to Liverpool finds a homeless boy on the streets. He takes him home to live as part of his family on the isolated Yorkshire moors where the boy forges an obsessive relationship with the farmer's daughter.

Based on the novel by Emily Brontë and adapted for the screen by Andrea Arnold and Olivia Hetreed, WUTHERING HEIGHTS stars newcomer James Howson as Heathcliff and Kaya Scodelario (SKINS) as Cathy alongside Steve Evets (Joseph), Oliver Milburn (Mr Linton), and Nicola Burley (Isabella Linton) and introducing Shannon Beer and Solomon Glave playing the young Cathy and Heathcliff.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS is Academy Award®-winning writer-director Andrea Arnold's third feature following the BAFTA® award winning, FISH TANK and Cannes Jury Prize winning RED ROAD. Arnold is joined by several long-time creative collaborators: Director of Photography, Robbie Ryan (BSC); Editor, Nicolas Chaudeurge; and Production Designer, Helen Scott.