Basil

Based on a Victorian novel by Wilkie Collins, Basil is a British-made costume drama that ended up on cable and home video. Jared Leto plays Basil, a well-to-do young aristocrat with an uptight Victorian father (Derek Jacobi). He befriends the mysterious gentleman John Mannion (Christian Slater) and falls in love with the lower-class girl Julia Sherwin (Claire Forlani). His father is upset about his questionable choices and threatens to disown him, thereby renouncing his birthright to inherit Windemere Manor., The story of Basil, a young aristocrat who falls in love with a beautiful lower class girl called Julia and befriends the mysterious gentleman, John Mannion. Basil marries Julia, despite his father’s disapproval and completely unaware that John has been having an affair with Julia., Jared Leto stars as a wealthy youth whose friendship with a commoner (Christian Slater) leads him into a secret affair with a merchant’s daughter (Claire Forlani). Father Frederick: Derek Jacobi. Clara: Rachel Pickup. Ralph: Crispin Bonham-Carter.