
Pride & Prejudice
2005Joe Wright128 min
Verdict: Home
- Dialogue carries the film
- The score does the plotting
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
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- A wide image, with more letterboxing on a 16:9 screen.