Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

180 mins | Drama, Romance | June 2, 2000

A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again with the law clerk. Her spending on dresses and furnishings mounts; these debts and her ill-advised professional counsel to her husband bring his ruin.

Madame Bovary

180 mins | Drama, Romance | June 2, 2000

Madame Bovary
A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again with the law clerk. Her spending on dresses and furnishings mounts; these debts and her ill-advised professional counsel to her husband bring his ruin.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers BBC, WGBH Boston
Original title Madame Bovary
Directors Tim Fywell
Writers Heidi Thomas, Gustave Flaubert

Cast

Frances O'Connor

as Emma Bovary

Greg Wise

as Rodolphe

Eileen Atkins

as Marie Louise

Hugh Bonneville

as Charles Bovary

Keith Barron

as L'heureux

Jessica Oyelowo

as Felicite

Trevor Peacock

as Rouault

David Troughton

as Homais

Stanley Lebor

as Binet

Hugh Dancy

as Leon

Joe Roberts

as Justin

Joe McGann

as Paul

Barbara Jefford

as Marquise

Claire Hackett

as Madame Homais