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"A passion beyond words"

In 1955, Sylvia Plath (Academy Award Winner Gwyneth Paltrow) entered Newham College, Cambridge England, where she met the British poet, Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig). They were married a year later and after a brief stint in Boston, returned to England where their two children were born.

In 1960 Plath's The Colossus was published and by June 1962 she had begun the poems that eventually appeared in Ariel. Later that year, separated from Hughes, Plath immersed herself in caring for her children, completing The Bell Jar, and writing poems at a breathtaking pace. By the time The Bell Jar was published, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, in early 1963, she was in desperate circumstances living in a London flat with her two children. Her marriage was over, she and her children were ill, and the winter was the coldest in a century. In February that year Plath committed suicide. Sylvia Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 foe her Collected Poems.

Director:

Christine Jeffs [2],

Starring:

Michael Gambon [43], Blythe Danner [19], Daniel Craig [26], Gwyneth Paltrow [36],

Screen Formats:

Widescreen 2.35:1

Language and Sound:

English 5.1 Dolby Digital
English Dolby Digital Stereo

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