Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1998 drama television film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel of the same name.
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Cast
Nathaniel Parker as Gabriel Oak
Jonathan Firth as Frank Troy
Nigel Terry as Mr Boldwood
Paloma Baeza as Bathsheba Everdene
Natasha Little as Fanny Robin
Sean Gilder as Joseph Poorgrass
Linda Bassett as Maryann Money
Robin Soans as Henery Fray
Sarah Tansey as Soberness Miller
Victoria Alcock as Temperance Miller
Elizabeth Estensen as Mrs Coggan
John Boswall as Timothy
Critical reception
Will Joyner of The New York Times wrote a positive review of the adaptation: "Strangely, and to its great credit, this new Far From the Madding Crowd, which was produced by Granada Television in Britain and WGBH-TV in Boston, does not simply survive the viewer's tendency to compare and second-guess; it thrives upon it. At almost every turn of the deliciously gradual tale of romantic chaos, the new version is just as visually striking as the 1967 film -- some of the locations are virtually identical -- and is more naturally rendered dramatically, with a rough language truer to Hardy's blend of poetry and rural speech."