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Firelight (1998)

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Reviews Counted:13

Fresh:6

Rotten:7

Average Rating:5.2/10

Consensus: Predictable and dull.

Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: 1938. A pretty governess agrees to bear the child of an English landowner who will in turn pay off her father's debt. Seven years later, she accepts a job as a governess to a landowner on a Sussex... 1938. A pretty governess agrees to bear the child of an English landowner who will in turn pay off her father's debt. Seven years later, she accepts a job as a governess to a landowner on a Sussex estate. When she arrives, she discovers that the child for whom she has been hired as a governess is her daughter. She must keep the secret to herself, even as it begins to tear her apart. [More]

Starring: Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Kevin Anderson, Lia Williams

Starring: Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Kevin Anderson, Lia Williams, Joss Ackland

Director: William Nicholson

Director: William Nicholson
Screenwriter: William Nicholson
Composer: Christopher Gunning
Producer: Brian Eastman

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I wish someone would explain to me why all these 19th Century costume dramas need to be so cheerless, so formal, and so godawful boring.

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What Firelight most tellingly lacks are riveting star performances to inevitably reel us in to its romantic absurdity.

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