Pride & Prejudice (2005)
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85% of critics liked it
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88% of users liked it
(425,845 ratings)
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 Bennets (Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland) are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their… More 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 Bennets (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. Bennet 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 Bennets 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, Rovi
- Directed By
- Joe Wright
- Written By
- Deborah Moggach
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Nov 11, 2005 Wide
- On DVD
- Feb 28, 2006
- Studio
- Focus Features
Critic Reviews
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
It's a fitfully engaging romance, it's just not Pride and Prejudice.
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Ken Tucker, New York Magazine
Keira's cat-smile suggests such supernal all-knowingness that, with Austen's adapted dialogue (via Deborah Moggach) tripping off her tongue, she comes off as an eighteenth-century Maureen Dowd.
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Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Dare I say that even Jane Austen herself would have delighted in the final triumph of Ms. Knightley's quick-witted Elizabeth in this film? Yes, I do, and all the highbrow and middlebrow cinephobes of the world be damned.
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Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
I just feel like I've seen this so many times.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
As historically authentic-looking as Pride & Prejudice is, it has far more invested in emotional authenticity -- you feel engaged every moment.
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Cast
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Keira Knightley
as Elizabeth Bennet
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Matthew MacFadyen
as Mr. Darcy
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Brenda Blethyn
as Mrs. Bennet
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Donald Sutherland
as Mr. Bennet
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Tom Hollander
as William Collins
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Rosamund Pike
as Jane Bennet
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Jena Malone
as Lydia Bennet
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Judi Dench
as Lady Catherine De Bourgh
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Kelly Reilly
as Caroline Bingley
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Claudie Blakley
as Charlotte Lucas
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Peter Wight
as Mr. Gardiner
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Rupert Friend
as Lt. Wickham
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Tamzin Merchant
as Georgiana Darcy
- Cornelius Booth
- Sylvester Morand
- Rosamund Stephen
- Janet Whiteside
- Sinead Matthews
- Roy Holder
- Megan Owen
- Samantha Bloom
- Moya Brady
- Pip Torrens
- Jay Simpson
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Penelope Wilton
as Mrs. Gardiner
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Carey Mulligan
as Kitty Bennet
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Talulah Riley
as Mary Bennet
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Simon Woods
as Charles Bingley



