Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice [videorecording] / screenplay by Andrew Davies ; directed by Simon Langton ; produced by Sue Birtwistle ; a BBC/A&E Network co-production.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Special ed.
Publisher:
Distributed by New Video,
Copyright Date:
c2001
Description:
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).
Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Anna Chancellor, Susannah Harker, Julia Sawalha, Alison Steadman, Benjamin Whitrow, Lucy Briers, Polly Maberly, Lucy Robinson, Adrian Lukis, David Bamber, Lucy Scott, Barbara Leigh-Hunt. Based on the novel by Jane Austen. Originally produced as a miniseries for television in 1995.
Contents:
(1995) (155 min.); Special features: Biographies [text feature]. Man of good fortune -- Strong constitution -- Party at Lucas Lodge -- Jane takes ill -- Accomplished woman -- Man without fault -- Mr. Collins -- Mr. Wickham' tale -- Wholesome conversation -- Netherfield ball -- Dinner music -- Marriage proposal -- Surprising news -- Mr. Wickham's engagement -- Proper wife -- Lady Catherine de Bourgh -- Most severe critic -- Another proposal (1995) (155 min.); Special features: Biographies [text feature]. (1999) (27 min.). Pride and Prejudice: The making of . . . / (1995) (145 min.); Special features: Pride and Prejudice: The making of . . . / narrated by Adrian Lukis ; directed by Sara Feilden ; producer, Julie Ardrey ; BBC (1999) (27 min.).
Summary:
Elizabeth Bennett is a strong-willed yet sensible young woman, the second of five sisters. She has a long-suffering but loving clerical father, and a scatterbrained mother anxious to marry them off as soon as possible--to wealthy young gentlemen. At a local ball, she encounters one such, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, whom she finds arrogant, cold, and rude. Her older sister Jane falls in love with Darcy's best friend Mr. Bingley, while youngest sister Lydia flirts with anyone in a military uniform. Lizzie finds herself fighting off the attentions of the unctuous Mr. Collins and quite taken by the charming Mr. Wickham - who also happens to be an enemy of Mr. Darcy. However, as the characters succumb in many ways to pride and prejudice, Lizzie learns that not all is quite as it seems...and that Mr. Darcy might not be so disagreeable after all.
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