Sense and Sensibility (Classic Masterpiece Book & DVD Set)
by Ang Lee
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Actor: Emma Thompson, Harriet Walter, James Fleet, Kate Winslet, Tom WilkinsonDirector: Ang Lee
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Limited Edition, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 136 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Sense and Sensibility (Classic Masterpiece Book & DVD Set)
DVD Review: Predictable
Summary: 3 Stars
The movie was very predictable.I think the story was great, but the cast didn't seem appropriate for the movie. Just have seen them in too many other movies. Their characters weren't believable.DVD Review: Sense & Sensibility
Summary: 5 Stars
Lovely movie that has adapted the novel to perfection. The characters are portrayed in such a way that you can't help but feel that you are there amongst them. One of the movies that you could watch time and again - comparing it to the actual novel has been a real pleasure.DVD Review: Quick delivery
Summary: 5 Stars
The dvd was sent within a week and it's in really good condition. Would order from them again.DVD Review: Excellent, except for the absence of Edward Ferrars
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an excellent version of "Sense and Sensibility", and I'll say right up front that the DVD extra of Emma Thompson's Golden Globe acceptance speech is a much watch. It's hilarious.
Onto the movie itself.
Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson do a fantastic job of selling Elinor and Marianne. It's a bit hard visually since Thompson looks so much older than Winslet, but they do the sisterly rather than the mother-daughter thing, so it works. Winslet's hurt look when Willoughby won't shake her hand was the defining scene for me; with Elinor, it was the scene where she quietly drinks tea while the rest of the house is in an uproar over Willoughby's defection.
What else I liked. Greg Wise and Alan Rickman as Willoughby and Brandon, respectively, are good as well. Imelda Staunton as the cheery Charlotte Palmer and Hugh Laurie as her sarcastic husband are fun. Laurie's few scenes are excellent - he comes across as sarcastic and displeased, but his genuine offer of help to Elinor when Marianne is sick is well done. (But hey, it's Hugh Laurie.)
I liked how they use Margaret Dashwood to enhance Edward and Brandon; I enjoyed the non-Austen map scene as well as Brandon's teasing Margaret over her curious questions about the Indies.
Imogen Stubbs as Miss Lucy Steele was fantastic. I'd seen this movie very early, before I read the book, and for awhile in the movie I couldn't figure out if she was supposed to be a good guy or a bad one. Stubbs' sweet, earnest expression plays so well into Lucy's underhandness.
The other side characters were all right but not memorable.
What sucked: Edward Ferrars. He didn't even show up and sent Hugh Grant in his place. This was the worst Edward Ferrars I've ever seen; instead of Austen's Ferrars, this guy is basically a Regency version of every other character Hugh Grant's ever played. He's kind of an inarticulate, kind of stammering, nervous, shy, bumbling but genuinely nice guy. This is not Austen's Edward Ferrars. I'll admit I missed it the first time I saw it - I had not yet read the novel - but upon second viewing it was pretty clear the disparity between Austen's and Thompson's versions. It's a puzzlement as to why he's written this way; of course Thompson knows Austen better than this, and Grant has got more range than that usual bumbling thing.
A definite watch, though with a caveat emptor.
DVD Review: Sense and Sensibility
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a typical Jane Austen romance, beautifully written and masterfully performed. The witty dialogue is well casted and acted by charming and professional perfomers. Highly recommended, especially for Jane Austen fans.
Description of Sense and Sensibility (Classic Masterpiece Book & DVD Set)
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 Picture of the Year by the Golden Globes(r). Based on Jane Austen's classic novel SENSE AND SENSIBILITY tells of the Dashwood sisters sensible Elinor (Thompson) and passionate Marianne (Winslet) whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. Rickman Grant and Greg Wise co-star as the well-intentioned suitors who are trapped by the strict rules of society and the conflicting laws of desire.System Requirements:Running Time: 136 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA/CLASSICS Rating:?PG UPC:?043396077188 Manufacturer No:?07718Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with this marvelous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as one of the Dashwood sisters--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic sister. Winslet attracts the wooing of shy Alan Rickman (a nice change of pace from his bad-guy roles) and dashing Greg Wise, while Thompson must endure an incredibly roundabout courtship with Hugh Grant, here in fine and funny form. All of this is doled out with the usual eye-filling English countryside and handsome costumes, yet the film always seems to be about the careful interior lives of its characters. The director, an inspired choice, is Taiwan-born Ang Lee, who brings the same exquisite taste and discreet touch he displayed in his previous Asian films (such as Eat Drink Man Woman). Thompson's script won an Oscar, and 1995 was a fine year for Jane Austen all around: Persuasion was made into an excellent picture, and Emma became the spritzy high school comedy Clueless. --Robert Horton
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