I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Very well executed

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

I've read the book "Wuthering Heights" many times and it's my favorite love story, so passionate and real. So I wanted to see an appropriate film version to this wonderful book. And I must admit, that this film completely catches the spirit and atmosphere of the book. I think it's very difficult to play the leading roles, especially the complicated Heathcliff's character. It's very hard not to make Heathcliff too human and otherwise not too savage. He is not a romantic hero and it's hard to show his vulnerability and passionate love for Catherine and his dark, cruel and vengeful nature at the same time. But I was pleasingly surprised. Robert Cavanah unbelievably well plays this role and the other actors are really good too. This film is really for those who love "Wuthering Heights".

I came across this on DVD last weekend. I had been looking for the mini-series I had seen on TV a good 25 years or so earlier and mistook this one for it. (I had no idea who was in the mini-series; and bad eyesight prevented me from reading the small print on the box.) Well I had no regrets. As a hater of the half told stories of a couple of previous versions I had seen, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'll agree with everyone else that Cathy and Heathcliff aged faster than in the book and that Nelly Dean should have been younger, but that did not detract from the story. And Heathcliff was depicted as a rogue, not a romantic hero; and Cathy was a twit. I felt no sympathy for her because she made her choice and got what she deserved. I do wish they had done more with Cathy 2 and Linton though. Their rather grating personalities were all but lost in this version. But at least they were IN this version. I had to watch it on a portable mini DVD player because my big telly is in for repairs, but this will be the first thing I watch when I get it back.

Yes, Brady and Cavanagh are too old for the childhood scenes, but no version has ever cast real twelve-year-old for those parts (The Calder-Marshall/Dalton one skipped to the adult actors ASAP and so did the Binoche/Fiennes one, if you'll recall), and I'll be very surprised if one ever does. The crucial dramatic scenes are from ages 12-16, which means you'd have to cast two or more actors for each role (Cicely Tyson could age 10-110 believably, but most actors can't) if you want to show the changes of adolescence. Most name actors wouldn't tolerate just playing the scenes post-marriage to Edgar, and leaving the meatier adolescent scenes to child actors. And frankly, most younger actors couldn't handle the dramatic weight of those scenes--possibly a young Kirsten Dunst could have carried the role of teen Cathy, maybe River Phoenix teen Heathcliff, but what about those accents? Now this may change someday: just as real teens were once thought unable to play Romeo and Juliet and since the Zeffirelli version casting young has become the norm, there may come a production that changes our view of WH forever and we will be unable to imagine non-teen actors playing those scenes.That said, however, this version captured the characters as written better than any I have ever seen. Heathcliff was not romantically sugar-coated to make him less ruthless and vengeful than he is, Edgar for once is not portrayed as a wussy little weakling but just an ordinary, civilized guy who doesn't have a clue what a messed-up situation he's getting into with these local savages. Maybe Cathy 2 is a little more sympathetic than she was in the book (she starts out pretty shallow and class-conscious there), but Cathy 1 is as hysterical, self-destructive, and borderline as Bronte meant her to be, and her ill-fated decision to marry Edgar is clearly not just social-climbing or (as she says) an attempt to get power to help Heathcliff, but a misguided notion that if she surrounds herself with comparatively normal people like the Lintons, she'll stop being the permanently-damaged product of a family "dysfunctional" doesn't even begin to describe. Maybe Nelly's a little whitewashed: in the book she meddles when she ought to leave things alone and leaves them alone when she ought to take action, but the actress does a good job as the one rational person following the progress of this Dysfunctional Family Tree. Kudos to all the actors, and to the scriptwriters for not making the Lintons the villains so we can have more sympathy for Cathy and Heathcliff. The Lintons have the values of their time and class, but they don't deserve to be #$%^ed over as horribly as they are just because they're too prosaic to understand Cathy and Heathcliff's supernatural bond.I loved the scene with the cave--where a young Cathy gets a glimpse of the man Heathcliff will grow to be, and the dying Heathcliff repeats the vision at the end. Even though it wasn't in the book, it captures the eerie sense that there was something extraordinary going on behind those ordinary events of bad marriages and class conflict, something supernatural and fated.BTW, this is the first version I've seen where all the principals actually have Yorkshire accents. Maybe the Lintons wouldn't, since they have London connections and Joseph even claims he can't understand Isabella's dialect, but Heathcliff, Cathy, and Hindley would all have them, not just the servants like Joseph. This is before mass communication, and they wouldn't have heard many non-local people speaking, the way city-kids from Leeds or Liverpool might. Even today when everybody has TV and radio, the accent in Haworth is very strong, so even though they toned it down for the sake of comprehension, at least they sounded like they grew up in North Country and not in a classroom at RADA.

I find that this 1998 Masterpiece theater TV version follows the novel of the same name pretty faithfully. One who has never read the novel may find the action moving too quickly, so that the flow of the movie may seem slightly abrupt or choppy. However, the movie is only 2 hours long, which is probably why they had to cut out parts of the book and take some liberties with ages and certain details. That does not detract too much from the enjoyment of this movie, which despite its choppiness, has excellent acting, beautiful cinematography (the landscapes are breathtaking), and a wonderfully wrought out, bitter plot which focuses on three generations of two families who are intimately interlocked with each other. Heathcliff definitely comes off as the cruel, embittered man he is in the book, and it's great to see a TV movie capture the personalities of all the characters so well. Highly recommended movie.