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: MCA Home Video
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: 129 min.
: English, Spanish, French
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Jane Austen's perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. The Bennetts (Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland) are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their means but well short of rich, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett are looking for suitable husbands for their girls, and they are encouraged to learn that an eligible young bachelor from a wealthy family, Charles Bingley (Simon Woods), has moved into a nearby estate. Eager to see if a match can be made, the Bennetts bring their daughters Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) and Jane (Rosamund Pike) to a ball thrown by their new neighbor to see if sparks will fly. Jane seems to like Charles, and he appears to feel the same, but Elizabeth takes an immediate dislike to Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen), Charles' egocentric best friend. While Elizabeth is infatuated with military man Lt. Wickham (Rupert Friend) and finds herself courted by William Collins (Tom Hollander), a well-meaning but drab man of the cloth, fate causes Elizabeth and Darcy to frequently cross paths, and while they don't care for one another, they can't stop thinking about each other, either. Pride & Prejudice also stars Jena Malone, Judi Dench, and Penelope Wilton. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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by talltale
March 3, 2006 - 5:33 AM PST
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2 out of 4 members found this review helpful
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Is it time, maybe, to take a moratorium on PRIDE & PREJUDICE? Let's have no more versions--cinema, TV, legitimate theatre (or that new Broadway musical that's probably in development) for, say, 20 years. It's not like we don't already have several fine accounts, not to mention the novel itself, to delight us meantime. This latest, for which director Joe Wright has already won a BAFTA award, is up there with the best, and yet there is beginning to be a heavy sense of deja vu about Lizzie and Darcy and their family, friends and enemies, at least for those of us who by now have experienced two, three, four of the tellings.
We know where it's all going, and getting there is not quite the fun it once was (due, I'd guess, to telescoping the novel into just two-hours-plus). Perhaps younger folks will soar and swell to the story more easily, and if so, all the better. Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen do mightily well as the leads; Donald Sutherland brings more feeling and emotion to the role of Mr. Bennett than I have ever seen; Brenda Blethyn and Judi Dench are spot-on; and Rosamond Pike inhabits Jane splendidly. Costumes, sets, cinematography--all wonderful. Enough already. |
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