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Pride & prejudice [videorecording] / Focus Features presents in assocation with Studiocanal a Working Title production ; produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster ; screenplay, Deborah Moggach ; directed by Joe Wright.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 28072 | Focus FeaturesLanguage: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Series: Focus Features spotlight seriesPublication details: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2006]Description: 1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1417055065
Other title:
  • Pride and prejudice
Uniform titles:
  • Pride & prejudice (Motion picture : 2005).
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Roman Osin ; art directors, Nick Gottschalk, Mark Swain ; editor, Paul Tothill ; music, Dario Marianelli ; costume designer, Jacqueline Durran ; production designer, Sarah Greenwood.
Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Judi Dench.Summary: Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival in the neighbourhood of the rich gentleman Mr. Bingley, who rents a large house so he can spend the summer in the country. Mr Bingley brings with him his sister and the dashing, rich, but proud Mr. Darcy. Love soon buds for one of the Bennet sisters, while another sister may have jumped to a hasty prejudgment. For the Bennet sisters many trials and tribulations stand between them and their happiness.
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Jane Austen's perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. The Bennets (Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland) are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their means but well short of rich, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are looking for suitable husbands for their girls, and they are encouraged to learn that an eligible young bachelor from a wealthy family, Charles Bingley (Simon Woods), has moved into a nearby estate. Eager to see if a match can be made, the Bennets bring their daughters Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) and Jane (Rosamund Pike) to a ball thrown by their new neighbor to see if sparks will fly. Jane seems to like Charles, and he appears to feel the same, but Elizabeth takes an immediate dislike to Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen), Charles' egocentric best friend. While Elizabeth is infatuated with military man Lt. Wickham (Rupert Friend) and finds herself courted by William Collins (Tom Hollander), a well-meaning but drab man of the cloth, fate causes Elizabeth and Darcy to frequently cross paths, and while they don't care for one another, they can't stop thinking about each other, either. Pride & Prejudice also stars Jena Malone, Judi Dench, and Penelope Wilton. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Based on the novel by Jane Austen.

Special features: A Bennett family portrait ; Jane Austen, ahead of her time ; Behind the scenes at the ball ; Pride & Prejudice : HBO first look ; Commentary from director Joe Wright. Special features not rated, not all subtitled.

Director of photography, Roman Osin ; art directors, Nick Gottschalk, Mark Swain ; editor, Paul Tothill ; music, Dario Marianelli ; costume designer, Jacqueline Durran ; production designer, Sarah Greenwood.

Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Judi Dench.

Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival in the neighbourhood of the rich gentleman Mr. Bingley, who rents a large house so he can spend the summer in the country. Mr Bingley brings with him his sister and the dashing, rich, but proud Mr. Darcy. Love soon buds for one of the Bennet sisters, while another sister may have jumped to a hasty prejudgment. For the Bennet sisters many trials and tribulations stand between them and their happiness.

MPAA rating: PG; for some mild thematic elements.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

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