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Plot

Another of writer/director Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence adaptations, Lady Chatterley (an amalgam of three Lawrence novels) was first shown as a British TV miniseries on BBC1 from June 6 to 27, 1993. In recounting the familiar details of young, bored Lady Chatterley (Joely Richardson), her elderly, infirm husband (James Wilby), and her hot-blooded stable-groom lover, Manners (Sean Bean), Russell took the opportunity to both celebrate and savage the British upper classes of the 1920s. One brief sequence of full frontal nudity caused a minor scandal in Britain, though by Ken Russell standards the scene was a model of taste and decorum. After its initial TV run, Lady Chatterley was edited down from 220 to 110 minutes and released theatrically in the United States.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Drama
Run Time:
205min.
DVD Release Date:
06/24/2003
Director(s):
Ken Russell
Starring:
Joely Richardson , Sean Bean , James Wilby , Shirley Ann Field
Themes:
Class Differences,Home From the War,Sexual Awakening,Scandals and Cover-Ups,Infidelity
Tone:
Austere,Intimate,Racy,Sexy,Stylized
Keywords:
extramarital-affair,horse,husband-and-wife,invalid,paralysis,scandal,stable [building],stable-boy,upper-class,world-war
Language:
English