Persuasion [videorecording] / BBC Films ; WGBH/Mobil Masterpiece Theatre ; Millésime Productions ; producer, Fiona Finlay ; director, Roger Michell ; screenplay, Nick Dear.
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FilmPublisher number: 03952 | Columbia Tristar Home VideoLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video : Sony Pictures Classics, c1999.Edition: Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0767836634
- 9780767836630
- Title on container: Jane Austen's Persuasion
- Persuasion (Television program : 1995).
- Masterpiece theatre (Television program)
- Director of photography, John Daly ; editor, Kate Evans ; original music by Jeremy Sams.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Adapted from what is arguably Jane Austen's most mature and subtlest novel, Persuasion is somewhat more nuanced and restrained than the more frequently adapted Emma and Pride and Prejudice. The protagonist, Anne (Amanda Root), is, by the conventions of society, considered an old maid when she remains unmarried at 27. However, a second chance arrives when her former love, Captain Wentworth (Ciaran Hinds), returns from the Napoleonic Wars. The pair, who hardly speak throughout, are surrounded by the usual assortment of family members, friends, acquaintances, and distant relations, many of them what pass for stock characters in Austen novels. There's the social-climbing parent, the dour upper aristocrat, the scatterbrained younger relatives, and, of course, the apparently suitable suitor who turns out to be all wrong. Of course, Austen's protagonists are never dumb, but Anne, being somewhat older, is also a good deal wiser, and the characters around her accordingly take on greater dimension and subtlety. Naturally, this being an Austen story, all ends well, but the path is somewhat less straightforward than in other films adapted from her work. ~ Genevieve Williams, Rovi
Based on the novel by Jane Austen; originally released as a motion picture in 1995.
Special features include interactive menus, bonus trailers, production notes and scene selections.
Special features: Widescreen version -- Interactive menus -- Bonus trailers -- Scene selections -- Production notes -- Digitally mastered audio and anamorphic video -- Language: English 2-channel Dolby surround -- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish.
Director of photography, John Daly ; editor, Kate Evans ; original music by Jeremy Sams.
Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds.
When Anne Elliot turned down Captain Wentworth's proposal of marriage, she allowed herself to be persuaded by her snobbish family's conviction of his unworthiness. But now, after a separation of eight years, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth are to meet again and the tables have turned. Her former lover's fortunes have prospered and he is now returned from a career at sea both eligible and affluent. Anne's father, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall, has been forced to lease their home and move the family into a rather small abode in Bath. Just as Anne now recognizes the false values that persuaded her to reject Captain Wentworth, so she must accept that his heart now seems set upon the youth and beauty of the impetuous Louisa Musgrove.
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1), Dolby surround stereo.
Closed-captioned.
Dialogue in English with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish.