English director Joe Wright's fresh, vivid adaptation of Jane Austen's much-filmed
Pride and Prejudice is an eloquent reminder that times change but people don't. The shabby and precarious gentility of the Bennet family is built on shaky ground: By the terms of his own inheritance, aging Mr. Bennet's (Donald Sutherland) house and property can only pass to a male heir, and he has five daughters. Mrs. Bennet (Brenda Blethyn), dismissed by all — herself included — as a silly, fluttering, high-strung woman, is absolutely right on one count: Her daughters face bleak futures unless at least one marries a financially stable man with the decency to extend his aid to h...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG
Length:
128 mins