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Sense and Sensibility
Directed by
Ang Lee
PG
1995
2h 16m
Drama
,
Romance
7.7
97%
90%
7.4
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In Georgian era England, wealthy Mr. Dashwood dies leaving his second wife and three daughters destitute. The ladies move to a modest cottage where the two older daughters vie for the attention of various suitors in search of true love.
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Cast of Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson
Elinor Dashwood / Screenplay
Kate Winslet
Marianne Dashwood
Alan Rickman
Colonel Christopher Brandon
Hugh Grant
Edward Ferrars
Gemma Jones
Mrs. Dashwood
Greg Wise
John Willoughby
Elizabeth Spriggs
Mrs. Jennings
Imogen Stubbs
Lucy Steele
Harriet Walter
Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
James Fleet
John Dashwood
Imelda Staunton
Charlotte Jennings Palmer
Hugh Laurie
Mr. Palmer
Emilie François
Margaret Dashwood
Robert Hardy
Sir John Middleton
Richard Lumsden
Robert Ferrars
Tom Wilkinson
Mr. Dashwood
Ian Brimble
Thomas
Isabelle Amyes
Betsy
Alexander John
Curate
Allan Mitchell
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Sense and Sensibility Ratings & Reviews
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
An old-fashioned romantic treat for all who love love.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Thompson plucks out the novelist's delicate wit, while Lee, a master of domestic dramady, takes Austen gently over the top in a prankish farce with just enough heartburn to elicit the occasional covert sob.
Newsday
Jack Mathews
In a banner year of moviegoing for Jane Austen fans, the best was saved for last: Ang Lee's gorgeous, romantic, good-natured Sense and Sensibility.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Michael H. Price
Directed with an immense scenic sweep and a wealth of emotional suspense by The Wedding Banquet's Ang Lee, Sense and Sensibility draws its greatest vigor from the very faces of its players.
Arizona Republic
Bob Fenster
While Thompson's script often owes more to Oscar Wilde than Jane Austen, it still works to create a literate gem of a comedy.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Watching Thompson, you're overcome with emotion. But Sense and Sensibility doesn't jerk tears from you; it earns them with a remarkable patience of its own.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Lee's supreme achievement -- and Thompson's -- is to maintain the tension between the extremes of the title and its world of economic imperatives.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Denby
Thompson and Lee get the relationship between the two suffering sisters right, the play of strength and weakness, candor and concealment -- sense and sensibility merging in each sister, until both Marianne and Elinor become complete human beings.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Is there a more purely enjoyable movie than Sense and Sensibility? Sublimely funny, ravishingly gorgeous and so deft in its criticism of social snobbery, this film... in some ways improves upon the original.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
It's impossible to know what kicked off the current preoccupation with all things Austen, but as long as it produces movies as sublime as "Persuasion" and this one, let's not ask too many questions.
Austin American-Statesman
Ann Hornaday
Thompson and Lee have taken precious few liberties with Austen's text, which gives Sense and Sensibility the authentic ring of a "Masterpiece Theatre" adaptation but also loses something in pure energy.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Harper Barnes
Don't let anybody tell you this is a woman's movie, or rather it's only a woman's movie. Sense and Sensibility is a delight for everyone.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Kristin Tillotson
It does make restraint seem a whole lot cooler than immediate gratification, and gentility preferable to vulgarity. That's a message that modern moralists can cheer, delivered in a manner much more effective -- and amusing -- than theirs.
Village Voice
Georgia Brown
Lee's mise-en-scéne, which some might liken to prose style, is tamely picturesque. Still, the basic story -- of financially challenged women in love -- makes for more exciting romantic comedy than Hollywood seems able to develop on its own.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
This kind of joyous catharsis is what the old movie masters of romantic comedy -- Frank Capra, Leo McCarey -- sometimes delivered. You don't expect to find it in adaptations of classic literature. You don't expect to find it in modern movies.
Newsweek
Jack Kroll
As writer and actress, Thompson has all the right Austen rhythms. And, in a most unlikely directorial coup, Taiwan-born filmmaker Ang Lee orchestrates those rhythms with sensitivity and style.
New York Post
Thelma Adams
A near-perfect marriage of head and heart.
Boston Phoenix
Stephanie Zacharek
As wonderful as Thompson is, Alan Rickman's Brandon is the emotional core of Sense and Sensibility. His performance is astonishing -- it's beautifully controlled but unabashedly romantic.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Out of the unlikely co-mingling of Jane Austen and Ang Lee, of Pollack's Hollywood smarts and Thompson's oh-so-English ensemble, has come a movie better than anyone might've hoped for.
Associated Press
Patricia Bibby
It's one of those rare films that seems magnificent in scale, though it concerns itself with the smallest flutters of the heart.
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