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www.boxoffice.com - : Jane Austen concocted literary heroines well ahead of their time, albeit none so independent that the institution of marriage is ever truly challenged. ''Pride & Prejudice'' gives the ampersand-free 1813 novel something it hardly needs: extra romanticism. The tale is already besotted; putting glorious sunsets behind shots of Lizzie Bennet (Keira Knightley, flashing toothy smiles) and Mr. Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen, whose smolder can’t match that of Colin Firth in the 1995 TV version) seems like overkill. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Everybody knows the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. But the chapter ends with a truth equally acknowledged about Mrs. Bennet, who has five daughters in want of husbands: ''The business of her life was to get her daughters married.'' more...
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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : When Hollywood adapts, we get Bewitched and The Dukes of Hazzard. When the British film industry adapts, we get Shakespeare and Austen. This explains why there is another version of Pride & Prejudice to be digested. And, while nothing will come close to matching the 1995 BBC-TV version, Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation is arguably the best Pride & Prejudice one can make with a two-hour time limit. Kudos to screenwriter Deborah Moggach (and her uncredited script doctor, Emma Thompson) for selecting the perfect cuts to Austen's novel without gutting the heart and themes or making the production seem rushed. While I'll stop short of calling this movie ''magical,'' I have no problem labeling it as very good. more...
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