Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet play sisters who (along with their mother and younger sister) are forced from their home with very little to sustain them when their father dies. They land somewhat softly as guests in a small home on a vast estate and each falls in love with a handsome man of means. But nothing's easy in Jane Austen's world: one of the men turns out to be a scalawag who must marry for money and the other turns out to have been betrothed to another for years. Will it somehow turn out alright?

This is basically the more tragic version of Pride & Prejudice -- and we'd just watched that miniseries last week. The acting is wonderful and the film is beautiful, but I just kept thinking about how much better P&P is. Probably unfair, but isn't everything when you're a woman without means?

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