Adaptations
The first and only film version of The Return of the Native was a television movie released in 1994 in the Hallmark Hall of Fame. The setting for the film is Exmoor rather than Egdon Heath: the film stars Catherine Zeta Jones as Eustacia Vye, Clive Owen as Damon Wildeve, Ray Stevenson as Clym Yeobright, and Joan Plowright as Mrs. Yeobright. Jack Gold directed.
In 2010 a direct-to-video adaptation of The Return of the Native was released. It was directed by Ben Westbrook and is set in Appalachia during The Great Depression.
The novel has also been adapted for the stage several times.
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