Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Joe Wright should be applauded for delivering a vividly realised Austen adap -- one which confirms Knightley has graduated from the Jackie Bisset of the '00s to this decade's Julie Christie ” Empire Magazine

Prepare to be bewitched, body and soul, all over again with the 20th anniversary of Joe Wright’s excellent version of Jane Austen’s Pride & prejudice.

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.

Rating
G
Duration
127 MINS

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