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
Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights". Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the tortured anti hero whose all-consuming rage, jealousy and anger destroy both him and those around him. He is better known for being a romantic hero due to his youthful love for Catherine Earnshaw, than for his final years of vengeance in the second half of the novel, during which he grows into a bitter, haunted man, and for a number of incidents in his early life that suggest that