The Return of the Native
The Return of the Native
The Return of the Native
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1994
1h 41m
6.3(19 votes)
Drama
Romance
TV Movie

Overview

Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers' triangle when she uses her wiles to entice two men, a dashing suitor and a successful man who made his name abroad and returned to his home on the heath.

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