The Mill On The Floss [VHS] [1997]

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Product Description A lavish new production of George Eliot's tale of forbidden loves, jealousies and family rivalry. Maggie Tulliver, the daughter of a Mill owner (played by Bernard Hill), has a very close relationship with her brother. As they grow older they are forced apart by her wayward emotional ties to the son of the family's sworn enemy. Her desperate search for reconciliation can only lead to tragedy. From the Back Cover Driven by passion, intelligence and imagination, Maggie Tulliver is a rare free spirit in the convention-bound world of Victorian rural society. Despite the fierce love between her and her stolid but resourceful brother Tom, who is incapable of understaning Maggie's waywardly emotional nature, she turns to other s for the companionship she craves. Denied the friendship of Philip Waken, the son of her father's implacable enemy, she meets and is drawn irrestibly to the young and handsome Stephen Guest. Torn between love and devotion to her family, she is rejected by Tom and only an act of supreme courage can effect a final but tragic reconciliation.