John Ridd (Clive Owen) has hated the neighboring Doone clan since the day as a child he watched them kill his father in cold blood. His passion against the clan has only intensified over the years to the point where he thinks of little else, until the day he meets a beautiful woman in the woods and falls in love with her, only to discover she is part of the Doone family. Directed by Andrew Grieve for BBC TV, the pacing in this epic of love is a bit too slow, but the performances, particularly from Owen and from Polly Walker as Lorna Doone, make it worth wading through. Sean Bean is also fun to watch as the evil head of the even more evil Doone clan.
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