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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 17 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 24, 1999
- Originally Released: 1995
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman & Hugh Grant | |
Performer: | Harriet Walter, Greg Wise, Gemma Jones & Imogen Stubbs | |
Directed by | Ang Lee | |
Edited by | Tim Squyres | |
Screenwriting by | Emma Thompson | |
Composition by | Patrick Doyle | |
Produced by | Lindsay Doran | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Coulter | |
Executive Production by | Sydney Pollack |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1995 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Emma Thompson
Entertainment Reviews:
Thompson and Winslet give fine performances ably supported by the rest of the ensemble.
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Time Out
...Inspired....Wickedly irreverent sense of visual comedy...
Premiere
Thompson's script manages the neat trick of preserving the necessary niceties and decorum of civilized behavior of the time while still cutting to the dramatic quick.
Variety
...Enjoyable...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
The decision to hire Taiwan's Ang Lee to direct this adaptation of Jane Austen's first novel was truly inspired.
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Radio Times
Rating: 4/5 --
A beautifully-crafted, witty, moving film likely to overcome even the stiffest Austen prejudice.
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Empire Magazine
I can't say I remembered this 1995 feature too clearly a couple of days later; but I certainly had a good time as I watched it.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
Actress Emma Thompson both wrote and stars in this adaptation of Jane Austen's SENSE AND SENSIBILITY--a novel that perceptively examines the social manners and laws of early-19th-century Britain. Set in the English countryside, the film follows the loves and heartaches of sisters Elinor (Thompson) and Marianne Dashwood (Kate Winslet). The two have extremely divergent approaches to life: Elinor represents "sense" and believes in behaving with propriety and thoughtfulness, while Marianne represents "sensibility" and basks in her own emotions. Both women, however, experience confusion when their lovers, seemingly on the verge of proposing marriage, spurn them.
For director Ang Lee, the film marks a break from his Father Knows Best trilogy, which examined the problems of the contemporary Taiwanese family. Many people questioned whether an Asian director could handle an English period film. Lee answered those questions with a gorgeous film that both captures the nuances of Austen's novel and proves that Lee is a first-rate director capable of tackling any material. Featuring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman, among others, the stellar cast inspired Lee to flatteringly exclaim, "Can everyone in England act'"
For director Ang Lee, the film marks a break from his Father Knows Best trilogy, which examined the problems of the contemporary Taiwanese family. Many people questioned whether an Asian director could handle an English period film. Lee answered those questions with a gorgeous film that both captures the nuances of Austen's novel and proves that Lee is a first-rate director capable of tackling any material. Featuring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman, among others, the stellar cast inspired Lee to flatteringly exclaim, "Can everyone in England act'"
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- UPC: 043396115996
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