Persuasion (1995)
Amanda Root, Ciarán Hinds, Corin Redgrave, Fiona Shaw, John Woodvine ... (see more) , Samuel West
Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young seaman, who, though promising, had poor family connections. When her father rents out the family estate to Admiral Croft, Anne is th... (read more) Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young seaman, who, though promising, had poor family connections. When her father rents out the family estate to Admiral Croft, Anne is thrown into company with Frederick, because his sister is Mrs. Croft. Frederick is now a rich and successful Captain, and a highly eligible bachelor. Whom will he marry? One of Anne's sister's husband's sisters? Or will he and Anne rekindle the old flame?
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PG, 1 hr. 43 min.
Directed by:
Roger Michell
Release Date: Sep 27, 1995
DVD Release Date: Aug 24, 2004
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I felt tormented alongside Anne Elliot! I was pleading and angsty getting toward the end of it. But the flow, the hype was amazing and everyone cast in the movie felt real to me :) One thing I was really wincing about was when Anne was running at the... (read more) I felt tormented alongside Anne Elliot! I was pleading and angsty getting toward the end of it. But the flow, the hype was amazing and everyone cast in the movie felt real to me :) One thing I was really wincing about was when Anne was running at the end of the movie, really thought she was going to pass out and faint @__@;
Hi, I love to watch movies base on Jane Austen books and this one was okay not the best of her works despite this was last of the books she wrote too beside that I did like the adaptation of it. It starts out the main character Anne who is some what ... (read more) Hi, I love to watch movies base on Jane Austen books and this one was okay not the best of her works despite this was last of the books she wrote too beside that I did like the adaptation of it. It starts out the main character Anne who is some what shy but a hard worker of her family (she does a lot of stuff that her other family members don't do) plus she listen to gossip a lot too. One day the guy she turn down to married him when she was 19 comes back from his journey 8 years later and to me the feelings for him never change in her heart. He sort of didn't know what to do either and there is another girl sort of goes after him too (you can tell he wasn't that interested the other girl at all). She sort of move on a bit too toward another man that her family does approve but she didn't know if she love him as much as the other guy. All in all it was a good movie but to me Jane other works has the chemistry of the two people that get together than this one I couldn't see the chemistry much in the two main characters that much.
most romantic movie ever. heart breaking depiction of an "older" unmarried woman whose one chance at love was forfeited to indecision and her unfortunate reliance on her friends' opinions.
Saw this on PBS in 1997, just after my boyfriend left me to go back to his hometown. Cried. Loved it. Saw myself in Anne.
Serviceable but slow-moving adaptation of Austen's most poignant, final work. Distinctly TV-movie in its approach, which deadens its pace.
ohh the letter did it for me. a man in agony for a lost long love, it's absolutely divine.
Anne is just about an old maid that's been forgotten and pushed into the background where her intellect and looks have gone to waste. She remeets her past love, whom she was persuaded to break off her engagement from and the movie takes place from th... (read more) Anne is just about an old maid that's been forgotten and pushed into the background where her intellect and looks have gone to waste. She remeets her past love, whom she was persuaded to break off her engagement from and the movie takes place from there. Good performances from the two leads and Amanda Root was perfectly cast as Anne. The movie is slower and was more difficult to follow the first time I saw it. After reading the novel the movie made much more sense to me and is done quite well.
A brilliant adaptation of Jane Austen's book. It's beautifully-acted and very faithful to the book (and all the better for it). I loved the screenplay and direction and I think it really captures the poignancy and beauty of the book. I really liked t... (read more) A brilliant adaptation of Jane Austen's book. It's beautifully-acted and very faithful to the book (and all the better for it). I loved the screenplay and direction and I think it really captures the poignancy and beauty of the book. I really liked the autumnal colours and the understated music as well. Excellent.
The Jane Austin classic, (referred to repeatedly in "The Lake House").
Worth curling up with, with a Hershey bar & a soft throw blanket, on a rainy Saturday night ...for the romantic at heart.
Beautifully portrayed, well cast.
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Much of the movie's emotional work has to be done by...faces and eyes, while other people speak of other things, and to see that happening is frustrating, because it happens so slowly, and romantic, because it happens at all.full review
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