Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep plays the worldly and mysterious Sarah Woodruff in the film based on the brilliant best-selling novels by John Fowles.

Directed by Karel Reisz (The Gambler, Who’ll Stop The Rain) and a screenplay by Harold Pinter, The French Lieutant’s Women is at once a classic Victorian love story and an ironic look at an age of double-standard morality. Sarah Woodruff’s chance meeting with Charles Smithson (Jeremy Irons), a young man-about-town who subsequently discards his pretty young fiancee in a wave of passion, sets into motion a series of events that disrupts the quiet fishing and seaside village in England and profoundly affects the lives of residents.

In addition to excellent performances, The French Lieutenant’s Women is beautifully photographed and is a totally authentic film of romance in Victorian England.