Lady Jane
- Original title
- Lady Jane
- Year
- 1986
- Running time
- 142 min.
- Country
United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- David Edgar. Story: Chris Bryant
- Cast
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- Helena Bonham Carter
- Cary Elwes
- John Wood
- Michael Hordern
- Jill Bennett
- Jane Lapotaire
- Sara Kestelman
- Patrick Stewart
- Richard Vernon
- Zelah Clarke
- Richard Johnson
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Romance. Drama | Romantic Drama. Costume Drama. 16th Century
- Synopsis
- After the death of King Henry and his young son and heir Edward VI, Henry's 15-year-old great-niece, Lady Jane Grey (Helena Bonham Carter), is chosen to rule by a group of palace conspirators who vow to keep the country Protestant and out of the hands of the Church of Rome. She is crowned, against her will, and her reign lasts only nine days, until Henry's legitimate daughter Princes Mary, by first wife, the Catholic Catherine of Aragon, and her supporters rally around and crown her Queen. Jane is imprisoned in the Tower of London and eventually beheaded, along with her husband, Guilford Dudley (Cary Elwes), for what is presumed to be their part in the conspiracy. The film chronicles, fairly accurately, Jane's growth, during her extremely short reign, from a bookish intellectual to a confident, and politically progressive young woman who refuses to conform to the religious hypocrisies of 16th Century England.
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