Top — Les Miserables 1998

: Uma Thurman offers a brief but "touching" performance as Fantine, while Claire Danes and Hans Matheson take on the roles of Cosette and Marius, though their characters are often viewed as less developed than the central pair. Adapting an Epic: Changes and Condensations

Here is why the 1998 Les Misérables still ranks at the top of many critics' lists nearly three decades later. 1. The Powerhouse Casting les miserables 1998 top

The 1998 film rescues the female characters from melodrama. Uma Thurman plays Fantine with a quiet desperation that avoids the usual saintly victimhood. Her degradation—shaving her hair, selling her teeth—is shot with stark documentary realism. There is no “I Dreamed a Dream” to romanticize her suffering; there is only the slow, humiliating collapse of a single mother. : Uma Thurman offers a brief but "touching"