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| Keira Knightley | Elizabeth Bennet |
| Matthew MacFadyen | Mr. Darcy |
| Brenda Blethyn | Mrs. Bennet |
| Donald Sutherland | Mr. Bennet |
| Tom Hollander | Mr. Collins |
| Kelly Reilly | Caroline Bingley |
| Claudie Blakley | Charlotte Lucas |
| Peter Wight | Mr. Gardiner |
| Rupert Friend | Lt. Wickham |
| Tamzin Merchant | Georgiana Darcy |
| Cornelius Booth | |
| Sylvester Morand | |
| Rosamund Stephen | |
| Janet Whiteside | |
| Sinead Matthews | |
| Roy Holder | |
| Meg Wynn Owen | |
| Megan Owen | |
| Samantha Bloom | |
| Moya Brady | |
| Pip Torrens | |
| Jay Simpson | |
| Carey Mulligan | Kitty Bennet |
| Talulah Riley | Mary Bennet |
| Penelope Wilton | Mrs. Gardiner |
| Simon Woods | Charles Bingley |
| Joe Wright | Director |
| Nick Angel | Musical Direction/Supervision |
| Tim Bevan | Producer |
| Liza Chasin | Executive Producer |
| Jacqueline Durran | Costumes/Costume Designer |
| Eric Fellner | Producer |
| Jane Frazer | Co-producer |
| Jane Gibson | Choreography |
| Nick Gottschalk | Art Director |
| Sarah Greenwood | Production Designer |
| Paul Hamblin | Sound/Sound Designer |
| Danny Hambrook | Sound/Sound Designer |
| Fae Hammond | Makeup |
| Debra Hayward | Executive Producer |
| Guy Heeley | Asst. Director |
| Catherine Hodgson | Sound/Sound Designer |
| Jina Jay | Casting |
| Dario Marianelli | Score Composer |
| Deborah Moggach | Screenwriter |
| Roman Osin | Cinematographer |
| Mark Swain | Art Director |
| Paul Tothill | Editor |
| Paul Webster | Producer |
| Jane Austen | Source Author |
What a movie. What a story. What characters. What gifted actors. What wonderful directing. What beautiful muisic. No need to say more except I have seen this movie about 40 times since I rented it when it first came out on DVD when I was in my late 50's. Loved everything about P & P even the extras on the DVD disk. My #1 favorite movie.
4 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.I went to this film alone (no one to heckle me for getting sucked into the romance) and in the mood for escapism, at 7PM. I went back and saw the 10PM show the same day. Ultimately I saw it four times in the theater.
Either you like this genre, or you don't; you love Jane Austen, or you don't. I do. And I don't hold the good people who put her stories up on the big screen to any particular standard. I really like the Greer Garson version, I like the BBC series. This movie is something else. It's not quite a reinterpretation, but it does add another dimension to the story. That isn't a problem for me -- it's a different medium; I didn't go to the movie to have someone read the book for me. The characters in this movie do not all have perfect hair, are not perfectly beautiful, look like they occasionally get B.O. But you like them. Alot.
The film resonated with me for days and days; I bought the soundtrack, I re-read the book again (not for the first time).
Don't be put off by Matthew McFaydden's sterness in the beginning; it's deliberate and by the end of the film I believe that you will agree he was absolutely perfect in the role. It must be hard play that character for people who in large part already know how the story turns out. But he convinced me to hate him like Elizabeth does at the beginning, and to love him like she did at the end.
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Posted October 1, 2010
Excellent rendition of Austin's book. The music alone is spectacular. Knightley and MacFadyen have amazing chemistry. This movie has moved to the top of my all time favorites.
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.The first time I saw this movie, I really didn't like Matthew MacFadyen as Mr. Darcy. Visions of Colin Firth danced in my head. But after another read of the book, and seeing this movie a couple more times, MacFadyen's performance actually surpasses Firth's in my opinion. He is actually sexier than Firth, a kind of smoldering passion can be seen in his eyes. Reading the book again, clearly it isn't so much that Elizabeth gets to know the "real" Mr. Darcy, as it is that Darcy himself changes. We really see that change when Elizabeth encounters him at Pemberly. MacFayden shows more vulnerability and deeper passion than Firth did. And Keira Knightley can express so much of what is going on in Elizabeth's mind with the slightest turn of her mouth, or a glance. Yes, the pacing is faster than the 6-hour A&E production, but I didn't find it lacking depth. Plus the cinematography, costumes, and staging make for a more beautiful viewing. Give it a try!
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Posted October 1, 2010
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It is very seldom that i say a movie is as good as the book but this one surprisingly is. The acting is FANTASTIC! It's my all time favorite movie!
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Posted October 1, 2010
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This has become one of my most favorite movies. The actors portraying Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are phenomenal. I so love the ending of the movie much better than the book, which is a switch. Usually the book is so much better but in this case for me that was not true. This adaptation is Academy Award worthy. It is so emotional and moving. If you need a good cry just watch Darcy's first proposal. To die for.
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Posted October 1, 2010
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Love the story, loved this version Keira and Matthew are perfect as the lead performers and the whole cast is perfect in protraying this classic by Jane Austen with a new updated version.
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Posted November 26, 2012
It seems I'm the only one who Hated Keira Knightley as Elizabeth!!! Please treat yourself to any BBC version of Pride & Prejudice, and you will be rewarded with deeper understanding of characters, richer portrayal of the time, and truly more satisfying viewing experience!
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Posted July 26, 2012
my favorite romance movie ever
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.I cannot believe the positve reviews I have read here. I found about a thousand erros in this film from the first minute of watching it. It starts with Lizzy reading a book outside and she looks dressed more like a servant and not a Daughter of a Gentleman. Then the piano is in the dining room and the house looks like something a poverty stricken family lives in (and the Bennets are NOT that poor) I could go on an on about the mistakes made in this film, but I believe there is a limit on how much you can type on here. In conclusion dont bother watching this, buy the A&E series with Collin Firth. This is a great adaption to the book and the most accurate.
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Posted June 17, 2011
My friend turned to me and said, "I think Jane Austen has climbed out of her grave and is heading toward this movie theater."
Watch the Colin Firth BBC tv series instead. Now THAT one is worth seeing.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.The movie was very good and I've also read the novel by Jane Austen. The character Kiera Knightlry played, though, was a little harsher than the character in Jane Austen's novel. Other than that, the movie is great.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.I should start out by saying that I really wanted to like this version of Pride and Prejudice. And I did find things to like: the music is lovely, the costuming is rather well done, and the photography is beautiful. But the film is a stagy melodrama.
There is almost nothing of Jane Austen there. The language is parsed and pared, words converted whenever possible to their "modern" counterpart---heaven forfend we use "manner" instead of "way"! And there isn't any proper Regency behavior in sight. Since when are young men allowed in rooms with unmarried young ladies in their nightrail? What on earth is Lady Catherine doing at Longbourn in the middle of the night? And why would an avid walker like Miss Elizabeth go outside barefoot in the damp, early morning? She should know better.
I felt the entire time that I was supposed to be watching a Great Romance but that I was so aware of its Great Romance-ness that I couldn't actually sit back and enjoy it. It was as though the director and the screenwriters were jumping up and down yelling, "Ooh! Ooh! This is an important part!" Every time I was ready to feel something with these characters, I'd be jolted into awareness that they were merely filmed actors.
I wanted to wince with Elizabeth at Collins' proposal. Instead, all I could think of was that camera zoom on the wildflower in his hand. Why is the flower important, I wonder? I wanted to feel Elizabeth's horror at Darcy's declaration. I wanted to feel Darcy's nervousness and passion. Instead, it was all I could do to keep a grip on what they were shouting at one another. I wanted to feel Elizabeth's regret and awakening to her own vanity and pride, but instead I was left wondering why she's staring at herself in the dark: she hasn't even received Darcy's letter yet. I laughed when Jane's letter was read! Which was their intention. But I don't know why it was their intention! And when Elizabeth seemed deepest in despair, I rolled my eyes. For is despair limited to the English moors? And must there be mist on those moors? And when they declared their love? I wondered why they were in love. I wondered when it had happened. Did I miss it?
These characters were supposed to have grown and changed. But Elizabeth doesn't seem aware of her own faults, and Darcy seems just as proud and difficult to like as he was in the beginning. The whole ending scene seems awkward and abrupt because it shows an Elizabeth and Darcy we should've seen all along. I know some of this can be traced to the fact that the film is only two hours long, but I've seen impressively complex and emotional stories told in the same amount of time. This one just fails to impress.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.I'm a fan of Jane Austen's books and "Pride and Prejudice" is one of my favorite books, but I felt it was ill-served here particularly in comparison to the Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle adaptation done by the BBC. I do understand such adaptations cannot and even should not be very faithful. Film is a very different medium as the written word, never mind that some things might need to be changed to make Austen work for a modern audience. I certainly noted several additions and changes between the source and Thompson's script for "Sense and Sensibility"--but even the additions seemed to be in Austen's voice and to be in the spirit of the original novel. The Pride and Prejudice adaptation made notable substitutions to lines that didn't need to be changed for a modern audience and were less witty and moving. Other elements were distorted to ill effect, nothing as much as the relationship between Mr and Mrs Bennet and how they skew the father/daughter relationship. In the book and the miniseries it's clear the Bennet marriage is a mismatch--one that acts as a foil for other relationships and makes Mr Bennet's comment to Lizzie in the miniseries that he hopes she would not choose "a partner in life you can't respect" have poignancy and resonance--except in this film the Bennets are happily married! The scene between Lizzie and Darcy towards the end when they come to an understanding falls far short of the mark compared to either the original book or the BBC production--I remember in the theater it drew hisses. I can't recommend this adaptation.
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Posted October 1, 2010
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I would have believed it impossible to create a version of Pride and Prejudice completely lacking in humor, but I have to hand it to the makers of this film -- they have accomplished the unfathomable!
I gave it one star ONLY because you are required to give a rating.
If one is looking for melodrama and historical inaccuracies, this is the perfect film. For Austen fans, it is nauseating and heartbreaking.
Keira Knightley's Elizabeth Bennet is a giggling school girl who roams the countryside in her nightshirt. That is, when she's not chasing the pigs out of the parlor or spinning round and round on a swing hanging from a tree in the mudpit that passes for a lawn.
Matthew McFadyen's Darcy seems lost among a group of flat characters and a surprisingly outgoing and girlish younger sister! In his defence, he seems to have been given very little with which to work. And I do rather like the coat her wears. Still, his Darcy would be much more at home in production of Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights.
I can't forgive the historical inaccuracies or the literary travesties.
The best advice I can give viewers is to avoid this production and invest in the infinitely superior 1995 BBC/A&E miniseries.
Some have argued that it the flaws in the film result from trying to tell the story in two hours. See Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility and Ciaran Hindes' Persuasion to see how it can be done.
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Posted October 1, 2010
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When I watched this movie, the first thought that popped into my head was "What was the point of making this movie, when they have already made a perfect version, with perfect actors, a perfect setting a perfect script?" And of course I am nudging towards the Colin Firth version. I'm 16 and I'm a HUGE Jane Austen fan. This movie made me feel like I was watching Jane Eyre because of the random tempestuous thunderstorm, and Wuthering Heights because of the early morning prowling about the moors because neither Elizabeth or Darcy could "sleep". Not that the whole Bronte thing is bad, but this is Austen, and it didn't feel Austen at all. The acting was not that good; Darcy (MacFayden) looked like a piece of cardboard and it looked awkward and weird when you saw him smile for the first time, not warm and fuzzy and "whoa! he's smiling!" like Colin Firth did; Elizabeth (Knightley) was bad, bad, bad. Because Knightley was playing her, she knew of her great beauty and flaunted it, even though she ISN'T supposed to be one! Darcy thought she was "tolerable"?! And she was so skinny, she looked more like a rich, London girl with her fancy hair and clothes that she wore ALL THE TIME, not the middle-class, country girl who loves to read and take walks and be outside all the time. I went into this movie with an open mind, I honestly did, but I was so bored throughout the whole thing. There was no passion; and one minute Elizabeth seemed to hate Darcy and the next she loved him! The ending scene was awkward and sloppy and I hated how they were suddenly the best of friends after no time at all! I know that it was constrained with the time limit, but doesn't that prove something? The magical quality of the book couldn't be captured. There is too much feelings and passion to be conveyed. If you are a huge fan of the book, than please watch the BBC version with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth. It's my favorite movie ever.
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Posted October 1, 2010
I fell in love with this movie after I watched it. The actors are wonderful in their roles and the storyline will grab you and not let go until the end. I have watched this movie so much that I know almost every line. This movie is a true classic.
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Posted October 1, 2010
I had seen this movie before I purchased it. It's a movie you must own because the story is a classic.
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Posted October 1, 2010
The whole family like this movie. I have read the book and this keeps more to the book,than other movies I have seen.We have watched it three times this year.
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Posted October 1, 2010
I fell in love with the book first. I was really pleasantly surprised how like the book the movie was. I despise movies that stray too far from the book. This P&P is phenomenal, and so true to Austen's vision. Now, that being said, Keira Knightley is a great actress as we all know. Matthew MacFadyen, too, is a wonderful actor as well as so very easy on the eyes. =) I think the casting was brilliant. A must see for Austenites!
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