Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights 25% based on 8 reviews, with a rating average of 4.5 out of 10. 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
Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) and gambling after the death of his wife, Frances, out of his ownership of "Wuthering Heights"; he heartlessly takes advantage of Edgar Linton's sister Isabella and marries her, before treating her in a cruel and contemptuous fashion. Although he tells Catherine that he despises Isabella and would "cut (his own) throat" if he imagined Catherine wanted him to marry Edgar's younger sister, his and Isabella's marriage promises to result in his inheriting "Thrushcross Grange" on Linton's death. This can only be achieved, however, by Heathcliff's forcing his and Isabella's son Linton into marriage with Cathy's daughter, who is called Catherine.