Over and over again
Added 1/30/2010
I've watched this DVD twenty times, at least, and I do not grow tired of it. The scenes are delightful - the houses, landscapes, seascapes, the interior scenes, candlelit dinners - watching these is like walking through a gallery of fine art. The movie is very well cast. The characters in this novel are subtle and complex, and, while an hour and a half of film is too little to capture everything, the actors do a fine job in portraying nuance of feeling and understanding. It is said that we are to occupy ourselves with those things that are pure and noble and of good report. This DVD is certainly one of those things.
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Very Pleased
Added 1/30/2010
I love all these movies. I also love the fact that you don't have to leave your house to
rent a video.
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blah blah blah...
Added 1/29/2010
I made the mistake of buying this movie without having seen it first. After forcing myself to sit through the first 30 minutes, I had to turn it off. Granted, I have not read the book so I cannot compare the two. However, this is an excruciatingly boring movie. I don't think even A-list actors could have saved this screenplay. This DVD went straight to the trash can.
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A more somber Austen...
Added 1/28/2010
I had just finished reading this novel by Jane Austen on my Kindle, and remembered seeing this on PBS a couple of years ago. I only caught the tail end of it, but decided to buy this. As with the book which was written towards the end of Jane Austen's life, the movie portrayed an older and more somber young woman, with less of the sense of humor that filled her earlier books. Perhaps life had 'beaten' Austen down...she had not had the opportunity to marry, nor had her sister after her fiance had died overseas. Austen most probably died of breast cancer which may have been giving her problems by the time she was writing this book. Whatever the reason, this story lacked the joy of the earlier ones, and this movie was not the best portrayal of the book in comparison to the many other portrayals of the other books. It seemed very choppy and didn't tie all the information in together that the book did such as the fact that the protagonist's male cousin and the woman who befriended her sister and father were in cahoots.
Maybe in a few years, someone else in England will see fit to produce this story again...they seem to like to redo Austen's stories on a regular basis. I hope they do. This isn't a bad movie, just not accurate and in keeping with the book.
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How disappointing!
Added 12/24/2009
Having very much enjoyed recent (and not so recent --- 1940's P&P) film versions of my favorite Austen books (P&P, S&S, and Emma) I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, since Persuasion is probably my "favoritest" Austen of all. How disappointing! I have no quarrel with the casting or the costumes or the sets or the scenery; BUT it seems to me that anyone who hasn't read the book will have little or no idea where the title comes from. Lady Russell's persuasions eight years before the novel opens are only alluded to in passing, and those during the course of the movie itself seem more like intimidations.
Rather they should have titled this particular film "Family From Hell, after an idea of Jane Austen's"
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Over and over again
Added 1/30/2010
I've watched this DVD twenty times, at least, and I do not grow tired of it. The scenes are delightful - the houses, landscapes, seascapes, the interior scenes, candlelit dinners - watching these is like walking through a gallery of fine art. The movie is very well cast. The characters in this novel are subtle and complex, and, while an hour and a half of film is too little to capture everything, the actors do a fine job in portraying nuance of feeling and understanding. It is said that we are to occupy ourselves with those things that are pure and noble and of good report. This DVD is certainly one of those things.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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Very Pleased
Added 1/30/2010
I love all these movies. I also love the fact that you don't have to leave your house to
rent a video.
0 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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blah blah blah...
Added 1/29/2010
I made the mistake of buying this movie without having seen it first. After forcing myself to sit through the first 30 minutes, I had to turn it off. Granted, I have not read the book so I cannot compare the two. However, this is an excruciatingly boring movie. I don't think even A-list actors could have saved this screenplay. This DVD went straight to the trash can.
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