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Sense and Sensibility makes a good template for how adaptations of classic literature should be made. It balances historical context against the values of our own age. It is filmed in a fetching ...
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- Ang Lee
- PG
- Emma Thompson
Parents say ( 8 ): Kids say ( 17 ): What makes this adaptation so endearing is its loving depiction of the Dashwood family as a high-spirited and supportive clan. Sense and Sensibility shows how women in upper-class Georgian England, though privileged, had relatively few choices in life. The beautiful, humorous movie creates a buzz of ...
- Ang Lee
- Ellen Mackay
- Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet
Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen 's 1811 novel of the same name. Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay and stars as Elinor Dashwood, while Kate Winslet plays Elinor's younger sister Marianne. The story follows the Dashwood sisters, members of a wealthy English family of landed gentry ...
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Dec 13, 1995 · "Sense and Sensibility" is an enjoyable film, and yet it left me somehow unsatisfied. I liked the wit, I liked the charm of the actors, I enjoyed the way that Rickman chewed his role as if he wanted to make it last, and the tension when Grant's Edward is made to suffer - particularly since he appears to be a cad only because he has tried to do the right thing.
Jan 26, 1996 · Sense and Sensibility: Directed by Ang Lee. With James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Kate Winslet. Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance.
- (126K)
- Drama, Romance
- Ang Lee
- 1996-01-26
Dec 13, 1995 · Sense and Sensibility is a great book by Miss Austen, and this film does the book justice, in my personal opinion. The film looks gorgeous, the camera-work, the locations and the costumes. The script sparkled with wit, subtlety, romance and heartache, especially when Marianne goes out into the rain and gets herself ill.
This movie, made with love and wit, reminds us how much charm, liveliness, passion, good sense--and sensibility--Jane Austen provides. Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 27, 2019. David ...
