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Best Version Ever!
Out of all the P&P movies made, this one is the most charming and most loyal to the book. Although six hours long, it is very nicely done. Some things are not 100% close to the book, but I'd say its 99.8% close, and thats just as close as you can get! If your a Jane Austen fan, or just a P&P fan, this is a must have. You will realy enjoy this!

Very good
I have to admit I struggled with the book, however, after seeing this movie I am going back to try it again.

This movie is excellent!! It is funny, romantic, entertaining..it's focus is the upper-upper class of England in the early 1800s...people who are so wealthy that no one needs to work and they can focus entirely on leisure and courtship.

The matriarch in the book (who is very, very funny) is set on getting all of her daughters married off and this story revolves mainly around her two eldest daughters, and their relationships with Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy. Of course, the ultimate plot line is the love-hate relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy.

This is a VERY long movie, and still it was sad when it was over! All the actors in the movie, in my opinion, we excellent. I do not usually like period pieces and refused to watch this the first time it was in the house, but gosh, I am glad I gave it a chance, it is GREAT!



Faithful Adaptation of Austen's Novel
This superb A&E/BBC mini-series is an adaptation of Jane Austen's 1813 novel. While all Austen novels revolve around the universally acknowledged truth that, "a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife," her protagonists are always of the fairer sex. In Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet (Jennifer Ehle) supplies that protagonist, and the prejudice. The pride comes from Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth) who finds Elizabeth attractive and intelligent but beneath him.

Jane Austen novels are set at a slower time and written for people who had the time to read them. They are leisurely affairs to be read over days. Therefore, no 90 to 120 minute movie can adequately capture the depth of her genius. That is why I enjoy this two disk, 300 minute, mini-series. Although the opening scene is not in Austen's novel, whole pages of text are presented verbatim.

The cinematography is good but again the genius of Austen was her presentation of the social and family relationships not the milieu. The Regency era setting was her world and she made no special effort to describe it. This mini-series is one of the most faithful adaptations of a novel I have ever seen. For fans of Jane Austen this is a must have for your collect.

Kyle Pratt

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