Drama - Director: Giles Foster, Adrian Shergold, Rodney Bennett, Simon Langton, David Giles, John Glenister, Rupert Penry-Jones - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Doran Godwin, Angela Pleasence, Sally Hawkins, Irene Richard, Peter Firth, Anna Massey, Robert Hardy, Katherine Schlesinger, Mollie Sugden, Bernard Hepton, Colin Firth, John Carson, David Bamber, Tracey Childs, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Googie Withers, Jennifer Ehle more
Collection of six of the BBC's lavish Jane Austen adaptations. Includes PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, MANSFIELD PARK, EMMA and PERSUASION.
their original publication, is staggering. Much is attributed to her use of such universal themes as marriage, social pressure, and the generation gap; many love her strong, spirited and unpretentious heroines and her emphasis on reason, moderation, fidelity and consideration; but most of all it is her sparkling dialogue, razor-sharp wit, marvellous characters and ingeniously intricate plots that have made her a small screen success.All these are intrinsic in the BBC adaptations. Emma perfectly balances humour and romance; Persuasion has a great strong heroine; Sense and Sensibility features the duelling of spirited sisters; Mansfield Park can claim Austen's most outrageous supporting characters; Northanger Abbey marvellously satirizes gothic romances while the electric sensuality of Pride and Prejudice has, with the courtship of Elizabeth and Darcy, remained everyone's favourite love story.
Production Year: 1995 - Drama - Director: Pat O'Connor - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over, 15 years and over - Starring: Geraldine O'Rawe, Colin Firth, Saffron Burrows, Minnie Driver, Chris O'Donnell
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Collection of six of the BBC's lavish Jane Austen adaptations. Includes PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, MANSFIELD PARK, EMMA and PERSUASION.
Advantages: It's a reasonable chick flick. Disadvantages: It's very predictable.
...When Sylvia's husband leaves her for another woman her friends rally round and start a book club to take her mind off her troubles. None of them are lucky in love. Jocelyn has decided she doesn't need love and fills the void with breeding dogs. Prudie is a high school French teacher ignored by her husband and tempted to have an affair with a student. Bernadette has been through several marriages and has decided she's entitled to be eccentric. Sylvia's lesbian daughter Allegra is having problems with her lover and Grigg, the only male member of the group is pining after one of the women but is unable to articulate his love. As the book club reads through the work of JaneAusten, they find themselves drawing ever closer parallels between their lives and the stories.
Writer-director Robin Swicord knows her audience. She sticks to tried...
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...teacher who is battling an attraction to one of her students while her marriage slowly falls apart, and Grigg, a science fiction enthusiast who is attracted to Jocelyn and accepts to join the club in order to get to know her better. Unfortunately for Grigg, Jocelyn recruited him into the club in an attempt to hook him up with Sylvia, who, incidentally, is still in love with her ex-husband.
Deciding that the club will be concentrating their efforts on JaneAusten's classic novels, the group meet up once a month in order to discuss one of the novels. During these discussions, the comments of the members begin to reveal their true natures, and friendships solidify and spill out into the 'real' world - a world devoid of JaneAusten.
In between the book club meetings, life goes on as usual with Sylvia's ex husband constantly popping in to...
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Advantages: good film and choice of characters Disadvantages: n/a
...It's safe to say that I'm far more interested in JaneAustens life than her written works which is possibly why I've become quite attatched to this film. It was shown on the telly the other day and despite the fact that I do have the DVD I had already circled it in the Evening Post TV listings. Just in case anybody in our house had any queries as to what we would be watching that night.
The film is about a young JaneAusten, the youngest daughter of her family she is expected to marry a wealthy gentleman who has offered his hand. The money she'd inherit could easily sweep away the chance of looming poverty which is hanging around like a bad smell. The problem as always is the obvious thing. She doesn't love him and what makes things more complicated is when a headstrong lawyer turns up.
Sent deep into the countryside by his uncle...
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