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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 ...
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.
Watch Sense and Sensibility | Netflix. Facing poverty after their father's death, three sisters are obliged to rely on the generosity of others in this adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. Watch trailers & learn more.
Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant star in this captivating romantic comedy that swept the Ten Best Lists and was named the Best Pictur...
Sense and Sensibility is an uncommonly deft, very funny Jane Austen adaptation, marked by Emma Thompson's finely tuned performance. When Elinor Dashwood's (Emma Thompson) father dies, her family's ...
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The production suffers from comparison with "Persuasion" because the earlier film looked simpler and more authentic, and this one seems a little too idealized; we want notepaper, not picture postcards. "Sense and Sensibility" is entertaining and amusing, but "Persuasion" is the one true Jane Austen lovers will prefer. Romance.
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters ...
