Jude

Synopsis of Jude

Jude Fawley (Christopher Eccleston) is a stonemason with a passion for learning who longs to go to university. After a brief but unhappy marriage to the daughter of a local pig farmer, he moves to Christminster to be closer to the scholars he admires. There, he falls deeply in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead (Kate Winslet), a thoroughly modern young woman whose wit and beauty captivate him. The ill-fated lovers join in an illicit union that flouts society's conventions, leading to tragedy in this adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel.