A loose, truncated reworking of Emily Bronte's classic story of obsessive love and its multi-generational consequences, this made-for-cable movie reduces the novel's tragically complex relationships to steamy teen-movie fare. Abandoned by their mother, whose wanderlust takes precedence over family, spirited Cate (Katelin Petersen) and her sullen brother, Hendrix (Seth Elijah Adkins), are raised single-handedly by their father, Earnshaw (John Doe), in an old lighthouse called "The Heights." Their lives are forever changed when Earnshaw brings home an abandoned boy named Heath (Adam Taylor Gordon). Earnshaw is never able to locate the child's family, so he raises him l...
Released:
2003
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
88 mins