Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is a 1992 feature film adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel "Wuthering Heights" directed by Peter Kosminsky. This was Ralph Fiennes's film debut. This particular film is notable for including the oft-omitted second generation story of the children of Cathy, Hindley, and Heathcliff. The movie revolves around the lives of the Earnshaws and the Lintons. It portrays the role of suffering, revenge, and unrequited love in society. Paramount Pictures was forced to use the author's name in the title of the film as Samuel Goldwyn Studio (later sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) owned the
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights rights to the simple title "Wuthering Heights" due to the copyright on their 1939 film version of the novel. The film stars Ralph Fiennes as the tortured Heathcliff and Juliette Binoche as the free-spirited Catherine Earnshaw, in a precursor to their later, successful collaboration on "The English Patient". The role of Heathcliff opened up doors for Ralph Fiennes to play Amon Goeth in "Schindler's List". American director Steven Spielberg claimed he liked Fiennes for Goeth because of his "dark sexuality." The film received mostly negative reviews from film critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of