Wuthering Heights

A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. A forbidden relationship unfolds between Cathy and Heathcliff, which develops from quiet longing to a dangerous pull of intense attraction, passion and increasing turmoil. Cathy and Heathcliff are at the center of a dramatically escalating relationship whose emotional course is getting further and further out of control. Late 18th-century Yorkshire Moors, England. Growing up under the harsh rule of an abusive father, Catherine finds unexpected joy when Mr Earnshaw, the heavy-drinking lord of the crumbling Wuthering Heights estate, saves from starvation a dirty, ragged foundling. Taken in to be raised alongside the rosy-cheeked girl, "Heathcliff" gradually forms an intense connection with Cathy, unaware that class, jealousy, and pride are the enemies of love. As a result, they go their separate ways when Heathcliff fails to get what his heart desires. Now, as the angry wounds of unrequited passion and social humiliation grow into a corrosive force of self-destruction and revenge, a morbid notion begins to consume Heathcliff. And if he can't have Catherine, then no one will. In 18th-century England, Mr. Earnshaw (Martin Clunes) returns to his estate of Wuthering Heights on the Yorkshire Moors with a young boy he rescued off the Liverpool streets, who he introduces to his daughter, Cathy (Charlotte Mellington), and her companion, Nelly Dean (Hong Chau). Cathy becomes protective of the boy and names him "Heathcliff" (Owen Cooper). As time goes on, the pair become inseparable. By the time Cathy (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) have reached adulthood, Wuthering Heights has fallen into disrepair due to Mr. Earnshaw's worsening alcoholism and gambling habits. Cathy plans to court her new neighbor, wealthy textile merchant Edgar Linton (Shazad Latif), to escape Wuthering Heights' bleak environment and help bring the lowly servant Heathcliff into high society, though Heathcliff is jealous and disapproves. The situation becomes more complicated when Cathy and Heathcliff begin to realize that they have fallen in love with each other, although Cathy initially shuns the idea of becoming romantically involved with Heathcliff and continues to pursue Edgar. One day, Cathy sprains her ankle while spying on Edgar and his ward, Isabella (Alison Oliver), and is taken in at their home for six weeks to heal. Edgar is smitten by Cathy and proposes marriage, which she accepts. While expressing to Nelly her guilt over choosing Edgar over Heathcliff, Cathy implies Nelly wouldn't understand because she "never loved anyone" and no one loves her. Provoked, Nelly bitterly manipulates Cathy into saying that marrying Heathcliff would degrade her, so that it would be secretly overheard by him outside. Heathcliff leaves before he hears Cathy confess her love for him and her belief in their connection, wrongly believing that Cathy does not care for him, and then leaves Wuthering Heights, riding away on horseback into the sunset. By the next day, Cathy has changed her mind about marrying Edgar, but it is too late as Heathcliff has already left. Cathy is devastated by his departure and initially refuses to accept that he could have left her. A year later, Cathy has given up hope that Heathcliff will come back and decides to go through with the marriage to Edgar after all. After the wedding, she lives a lavish lifestyle with her husband at their home, Thrushcross Grange, but secretly longs to be reunited with Heathcliff again. As the years go by, Cathy eventually becomes pregnant with Edgar's child. Soon after Cathy learns of her pregnancy, Heathcliff finally returns, five years after his departure, and is now well-groomed and wealthy. Rather than being happy to see Cathy, he is bitter and angry over her decision to marry Edgar and considers marrying Isabella to make Cathy jealous. He purchases Wuthering Heights from Mr. Earnshaw, who dies soon after. Following this, Heathcliff consoles Cathy and they reconnect, beginning an intense romantic and sexual affair. After Cathy realizes Nelly knew Heathcliff was listening when Cathy said marrying him would degrade her, she tries to banish Nelly from the Grange. Nelly then reveals the affair to Edgar, who forbids Cathy from seeing Heathcliff. Cathy later reveals her pregnancy to Heathcliff, who claims to not mind before having sex with her. He offers to kill Edgar, which Cathy rejects, and she dismisses him. Furious, Heathcliff enters into a loveless, BDSM relationship with Isabella, who understands Heathcliff's motivations and agrees to elope with him. Following the marriage, Heathcliff degrades Isabella and treats her like a dog, which Nelly witnesses when she visits them at Wuthering Heights. Depressed over Heathcliff marrying Isabella, Cathy locks herself in her room and starves herself. Heathcliff tries to stay connected to Cathy by secretly sending her love letters while she is isolated and growing weaker, but Nelly deliberately intercepts them, letting Cathy think Heathcliff has abandoned her. Her pregnancy eventually results in a miscarriage which becomes septicemic. When Nelly realizes how serious Cathy's situation is, she returns to Wuthering Heights to rescue Isabella and to reveal to Heathcliff that Cathy is dying. Heathcliff frantically rides to the Grange on horseback, only to find when he arrives that Cathy has already died. Heathcliff then holds Cathy's dead body and begs her to drive him mad and not give him peace as long as he should live. (from Wikipedia)