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Podcast: FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT
Episode: Friday Family Film Night: WUTHERING HEIGHTS 1939 vs 2026
Description: In which Kid 1 and I do a compare and contrast of WUTHERING HEIGHT 1939 vs WUTHERING HEIGHTS 2026, both sourced from Emily Brontë's novel.  In writer/director Emerald Fennell’s stylized and provocative 2026 reimagining of the Brontë classic, the feral bond between the spirited Catherine Earnshaw (Margot Robbie) and the brooding orphan Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) is forged amidst the gothic decay of their childhood home and the windswept Yorkshire moors. Their obsessive connection is violently severed when Catherine chooses the refined comfort of a marriage to the wealthy Edgar Linton, prompting a devastated Heathcliff to vanish into the nig...