The Turn of the Screw Movie Review 1999

Solid TV adaptation of the Henry James novel boasts some fine performances in a now familiar story. Miss (May) is the young, too-impressionable governess at Bly manor, whose charges are the overly well-behaved Miles (Sowerbutts) and his younger sister, Flora (Robinson). Soon Miss is seeing ghosts--those of the former governess and another servant, Peter Quint (Salkey), whom she believes are corrupting her innocent children. But maybe the emotional young woman is simply crazy.

Distribution

WGBH/Boston, PO Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407-2284, Phone: (617)492-2777, Toll-free: 800-989-8670, Fax: (802)864-9846, Email: sarah_slater@wgbh.org, URL: http://www.wgbh.org

Available on VHS
Running time 80 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sanity Check, Supernatural Horror, Books to Film: Henry James, Nannies & Governesses, Childhood Visions, Ghosts, Ghouls, & Goblins

Screenplay

Nick Dear

Cast

Jodhi May, Pam Ferris, Colin Firth, Joe Sowerbutts, Grace Robinson, Jason Salkey, Caroline Pegg, Jenny Howe

Cinematography

David Odd

Director

Ben Bolt

Music

Adrian Johnston