Sense and Sensibility Film

Oscar winning Sense and Sensibility is an adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel about the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, in early 19th Century England.

Fast Facts

1. Director: Ang Lee
2. Starring: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, and Hugh Laurie
3. Released: December 13, 1995
4. Running time: 136 min
5. Budget: 16.5 million U.S. Dollar
6. Worldwide Box Office: $134.6 million
7. Nominated for 7 Academy Awards
8. Won an Oscar for "Best Adapted Screenplay"
9. Based on the classic novel by Jane Austen

Movie Goofs

1. When the fiddler exits the church at the wedding, the fiddle is fitted with a chin-piece, which was not used on fiddles until the twentieth century.
2. At the end of the film, as Edward is coming up the road, Elinor is working in the garden, her hands grimy up to the wrists. As the women rush into the cottage just seconds later, the amount of dirt on her apron doesn't match the dirt that was on her hands, and her hands are practically clean.
3. When Elinor and the rest of the family stands as Edward comes with the news of his brother's wedding, first Elinor's hands are at her sides, then they are under her apron (presumably to hide her dirty hands), and then they are back at her sides.

Reviews

"Poised, delicate, powerful, hovering between poignancy and pealing laughter, it is a feast formed by skill and serendipity." - The Globe and Mail

"[It presents] us with a vast range of richly developed, gorgeously played characters ... and mov[es] them gracefully through time and a lot of very pretty spaces without ever losing its conviction, its concentration or our bedazzled attention." - Time

"It's an exuberant, well- crafted film that gets the audience involved on a gut level even before the opening credits are over." - San Francisco Chronicle

"Funny, expansive, and a delight to spend company with." - Film.com

"This rapturous romance is not only laugh-out-loud funny but demonstrates how little humankind has evolved in matters of the heart." - Washington Post

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