Movie Description:
19th Century Great Britain-The Industrial Revolution brings both the promise and fear of change. In the provincial town of Middlemarch, theprogressive Dorothea Brooke desperately seeks intellectual fulfillment in a maledominated society and is driven into an unhappymarriage to the elderly scholarCasaubon. No sooner do they embark on their honeymoon than she meets and develops an instant connection with Casaubon`s young cousin, Will Ladislaw.When idealistic Doctor Lydgate arrives, his new methods of medicine sweep him into the battlebetween conservatives and liberals in town. He quicklybecomes enamored of the beautiful, privileged Rosamond Vincy, a woman whosetroubles seem bound to destroy him. As Doctor Lydgate and Dorothea are drawninto the lives and intrigues ofMiddle- march, the seeds are sown for an epic tale of passion, disillusionment and blackmail.
