I am a normal teenager , who enjoys going out with friends and doing normal teenage things and so you wouldn't expect me to watch this film,let alone actually enjoy it!! But I did!! I enjoyed it so much, I watched it twice!! The first time, some of the language went a bit over my head, but the second time I understood it much better. There are witty jokes that did make me laugh aloud. Paltrow plays her character, Emma, with such style and with Emma being such a decieving,and sonetimes cruel, person then she has to be played with a certain subtelty which Gwyneth Paltrow pin points perfectely. The other actors/actresses are also fit in with their characters extrodinarily well. Emma sees herself as a match maker, but what she doesn't see is that whether you are upper or lower class, you can't help who you fall in love with, this is made a bigger problem when Emma tries to set her friend up with someone 'within her class' but she actually falls for a farmer, which Emma disagrees with and so she tries to destroy anything between them, this is just one of the many complications with love that this film comes across. I recommend it to anyone, I didnt think it was my kind of film either but it may just surprise you!
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Production Year: 1998 - Drama - Director: Martin Brest - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Marcia Gay Harden, Jake Weber, Claire Forlani, Jeffrey Tambor
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I've got this on VHS somewhere but never actually watched it! Lucie xxx
adamsputnik 14.05.2005 17:18
Definitely not my sort of film! Still got made to watch it one time, though..... write up is good but could do with a little more flesh. I'm not sure whether it's a DVD or not that you're reviewing - did it have any neat features? That stuff is always handy (course if it's not a DVD then feel free to belt me).
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Century village which revolves around a spoilt young woman Emma Woodhouse who delights in influencing the love-lives of her friends with disastrous results.
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Advantages: Cute and cuddly film for cold nights when theres nothing better to do Disadvantages: Tries painfully hard to be the success that 'Harry met Sally' was
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