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Title:

Persuasion [videorecording] / BBC Films ; WGBH/Mobil Masterpiece Theatre ; Millesime Productions ; produced by Fiona Finlay ; directed by Roger Michell ; screenplay by Nick Dear.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Edition:

Widescreen version.

Publisher:

Sony Pictures Classics

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Films for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
England--Social life and customs--19th century--Drama.

Other Authors:

Root, Amanda.
Hinds, Ciaran.
Finlay, Fiona.
Michell, Roger, 1957-
Dear, Nick.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
BBC Films.
WGBH (Television station : Boston), Mass.).
Mill©♭sime Productions.
Sony Pictures Classics (Firm).
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm).

Other Titles:

Masterpiece theatre (Television program.)

Notes:

Based on the novel by Jane Austen; originally released as a motion picture in 1995. DVD also issued separately by Columbia Tristar Home Video as 03952. Special features include full length text of Persuasion by Jane Austen, bonus trailers, and production notes. Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds.

Summary:

Anne and Wentworth's "passion is thwarted by a scheming socialite. Eight years later, when Anne is considered an old maid and her once-rich family is on the verge of bankruptcy, Wentworth returns. Will their second chance at love be ruined by the social conventions that destroyed it once? Or will the heart be persuaded by rules of its own?"--Container.

ISBN:

0767836634 : :
9780767836630 : :
1404965092 (set)
9781404965096 (set)

Locations:

FMPC224 -- Guttenberg Public Library (Guttenberg)

KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)