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) it to the Birmingham stage in 1998. Masterpiece Theatre presented a 2009 two-part series of "Wuthering Heights" starring English actor Tom Hardy as Heathcliff. In this version, the second-generation characters play a key role, and the telling of the story begins and ends with them. In 2011, director Andrea Arnold directed a film adaptation starring James Howson as Heathcliff. "Wuthering Heights", a single from Kate Bush's 1978 debut album, "The Kick Inside", is told from the perspective of a ghostly Catherine Earnshaw visiting an aged Heathcliff. Australian actor Heath Ledger and his sister were named after Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.