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Alessandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz, Frances O'Connor, Harold Pinter, Jonny Lee Miller
At the age of ten, Fanny Price is sent to live with wealthy relatives in Northampton Shire, leaving her impoverished family behind in Portsmouth. She has always known her debt of gratitude towards her...( read more
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I thought this movie was really good! It wasn't too stuffy at all, like some of the movies from this time period can be. Good acting as well!
Call me a prude and traditionalist, but sex doesn't belong in a Jane Austen adaptation. The atmosphere is not right for it. Leave the sexualisation of Austen to erotica novelists, Miss Rozema.
I don't support the decision of focusing on the slavery too much either. It's about th...( read more)
This was a really great adaptation..and had a great cast. It was good to see Johnny Lee Miller again. I would recommend watching Sense & Sensability though..it is a bit better.
Loved it all the way to the end, although this review may be unreliabble since i have yet to actually read the book.
Someone who knows Jane Austen's life and has also an experience of her books or the movies based on them ,can realise one thing for sure , that her novels also are based on her own life ,somehow . But this movie has more realistic elements of her season .Also has more action than...( read more)
I have never read the book so I can't compare the movie to that, but I did enjoy the movie. At the beginning it was hard to get into the story because I was having a hard time with following the characters and getting the relationships straight. Once I figured out how everyone co...( read more)
