''Far from the Madding Crowd'' is a 1998 drama television film adaptation of

Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Word ...

's 1874 novel of the same name.

Critical reception

Will Joyner of ''

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'' wrote a positive review of the adaptation: "Strangely, and to its great credit, this new ''Far From the Madding Crowd,'' which was produced by

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in Britain and

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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."

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