Rebecca

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Rebecca

PG-13

2020

2h 1m

Drama

Romance

Mystery & Thriller

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A young newlywed arrives at her husband's imposing family estate on a windswept English coast and finds herself battling the shadow of his first wife, Rebecca, whose legacy lives on in the house long after her death.

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Critics Consensus

Ben Wheatley's Rebecca remake is ravishing to behold, but it never quite gets to the heart of the classic source material -- or truly justifies its own existence.

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Christina Newland

iNews.co.uk

09/23/2024

2/5

If Wheatley and his team had found a way to inject some of that delicious moral ambivalence into the veins of the film, Rebecca might be more worthwhile.

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Roxana Hadadi

Pajiba

12/07/2020

This is a melodramatic tale of class disparity and imposter syndrome and compulsive jealousy and explosive fury, and the execution here is just ... tepid. Lukewarm.

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Robbie Collin

Daily Telegraph (UK)

11/20/2020

3/5

Overall, it's a highly polished and consistently enjoyable watch that feels a little hemmed in by convention.

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Alison Croggon

The Saturday Paper

Aug 19

Mrs Danvers’ smouldering passion for Rebecca might be the only real love in the story, but even Scott Thomas can’t disrupt the syrupy heterosexual sentimentalism that kills this story dead.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Mar 19

3/5

‘…a lush, watchable but empty film that misses out on the class conflict, creepiness and drama…’

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Julian Singleton

Cinapse

07/12/2025

While this Rebecca may not wholly live up to the reputations of its predecessors, there’s much to love in its director’s take on a thrilling, engaging slice of seaside suspense.

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MICHAEL D

@madjr59 Jul 4

The movie is pretty. There is enormous departure from du Maurier's novel and this hurts the presentation fatally. You have to wonder what Wheatley was thinking.

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Laura H.

@Fairytalemaker Jun 21

Loved this modern retelling of a classic. Slick and stylish. The leads are charmingly in a tortured love triangle . Kristin Scott Thomas is beautifully wicked. Manderlay is gorgeous. It doesn’t follow the book’s love affair with the house, but I feel the visual impact was enough to give viewers the sense of its grandeur. And the malevolent presence of Rebecca.

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Katie L

@Katie282 Mar 20

I loved this film! I was shocked to see the negative scores. I havent read the book and dont remember much about the original film, so I didnt have any prejudice about what the film "should be". In contrast to negative reviews, I really liked that the film wasnt overwrought or melodramatic. Staying slightly understated gave it a simmering suspense that I thought was very well done. I'm glad I didnt read the reviews first or I would have missed out on a very good film.

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Sally C

@Sally1968 Mar 10

If you haven’t read the book, this movie would be OK. If you have read the book you’ll be questioning why they took a perfectly good story and changed just about everything in it. They’re also missing the most important character in the book—Mandalay. Du Maurier took great pains describing the house and the grounds and how the second wife was experiencing it. By the time you’re done reading the book, Mandalay is a living, breathing entity. This movie doesn’t capture that at all, nor the inexplicable grief Maxim would’ve had when he saw its destruction.

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mitchell C.

@mitch89014 Dec 26

It is very hard to out do Hitchcock That being said, this is a solid version of the material Not a classic like the original but one worth watching

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Katie W.

@Katiekatie4156 Nov 30

Very good, enjoyed all of the actors, beautiful scenery.

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Synopsis

A young newlywed arrives at her husband's imposing family estate on a windswept English coast and finds herself battling the shadow of his first wife, Rebecca, whose legacy lives on in the house long after her death.

Director: Ben Wheatley
Producer: Raphaël Benoliel, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Nira Park
Screenwriter: Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Working Title Films, Netflix
Rating: PG-13 (Smoking|Partial Nudity|Some Sexual Content|Thematic Elements)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 21, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 21, 2020
Runtime: 2h 1m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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