7.3
“Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.”
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
September 16, 20052h 8mEN
8.0
8.7K votes
Overview
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Director
Joe WrightWriters
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Original Language
English
Budget
$28.0M
Revenue
$124.6M
Production Companies
StudioCanalWorking Title FilmsScion FilmsFocus Features
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Andres Gomez
8.0Good adaptation and performances from Knightley and MacFayden.
Peter McGinn
10.0When I watched this version of the Austen classic prior to packing the DVD away for a move, I assumed ahead of time it would stay nestled behind the Colin Firth version as my second favorite adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Now, however, pending my watching the other version again, this might indeed be my new favorite. Not due to any major differences in acting ability or in the writing, but rather for the way it nails down the little things, the stuff I may not have noticed the first time or two I watched it. One simple example is of the portrayal of Mary, one of the servants in the Benn…
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Filipe Manuel Neto
6.0**Overall, it's a good adaptation, even if it's not free of mistakes and problems.** I believe that “Pride and Prejudice” is one of the most transported English novels to film and television. I've seen more than one adaptation, and each one has its merits and problems (however, it's generally agreed that the 1995 miniseries is the most perfect and canonical). This film is not as good as I would like it to be, it has several problems, but it is quite acceptable and also has positive notes to retain. Here, the story we already know so well takes place in the final years of the 18th century…
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