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Sense and Sensibility
Ang Lee's first Engish-language film, "Sense" is a vivid period drama, intelligent and involving, and benefitting from Austen's skewering of English social mores, gossip and materialism. Young Winslet is striking in a fiery, star-making turn, more than holding her own beside the gifted and appealing Thompson (who also wrote the screenplay-and got the Oscar for it).


wonderful, but would love to see....
...an alternate ending in which Elinor turns to Colonel Brandon and says "let's forget silly Edward and Marianne and run off together!" How much more satisfactory that would be than to settle for Marianne taking Brandon on the rebound.

Witty and Lucid Screenplay
Emma Thompson has given us a wonderful adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, even managing to include the youngest daughter, Margaret, who didn't make it into the much longer BBC version. The casting is excellent, the only quibble being that it requires some effort to believe Emma Thompson as a nineteen year old. They are all delightful actors, though, and I particularly enjoyed the romance between Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman. The sensible daughter gets the penniless clergyman and the impressionable daughter gets the weathy older man.

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