Sense and Sensibility Review by Jessica Film Junkie (5 Stars)

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Starring:
Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Greg Wise, Robert Hardy, Elizabeth Spriggs, Gemma Jones, James Fleet, Harriet Walter, Imogen Stubbs, Imelda Staunton, Hugh Laurie

Directed By:
Ang Lee

Written By:
Emma Thompson

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

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Movie Review by Jessica Film Junkie
March 10th, 2007

Greatness from Mr. Lee

Ang Lee takes on Jane Austen with a script by star Emma Thompson.

We meet the Dashwood sisters, longing to find love, but constantly cast aside by their lack of social standing.

Kate Winslet as Marianne encompasses the irrational passion of youth. She sacrifices herself on the altar of love and when it does not give her what she wants she collapses in agony. It is a melodramatic character that Winslet makes all her own.

Thompson is heart-wrenching as the restrained Eleanor. She loves Edward (Hugh Grant) an upper class gentleman who loves her back but is tied to a promise he made to another woman years ago. Thompson guides us through the movie while also frustrasting us with her unwillingness to speak up.

Hugh Laurie and Alan Rickman also make wonderful turns as gentlemen in the story, but this is a female tale of love and betrayal and the hateful nature of class relations.

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