![]() Hay-merchant Henchard a number of lucky breaks, including the diligent services of his farm manager, Scotsman Donald Farfrae (James Purefoy). Hoping to improve the future prospects of her daughter, Elizabeth Jane (Johdi May), Susan seeks out her first husband, who in the intervening years has become a pillar of the small-town Casterbridge community. ![]() The buyer, seafarer Richard Newson (Clive Russell), turns out to be a fine man, but after 19 years of marital bliss he disappears at sea. The next morning, a hung-over Henchard regrets his folly and vows to God to avoid liquor. Abusive and alcoholic, unemployed farmhand Michael Henchard (Ciaran Hinds) mistreats his devoted wife, Susan (Juliet Aubrey), and then drunkenly auctions her off, with their infant daughter, to the highest bidder at a county fair. ![]() After mishandling the story's set-up, director David Thacker steers Ted Whitehead's adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic novel to a satisfyingly cathartic end. ![]()
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