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Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with this marvelous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as one of the Dashwood sisters--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic and deeply disappointed sister. Winslet attracts the wooing of shy Alan Rickman (a nice change of pace from his bad-guy roles) and dashing Greg Wise, while Thompson must endure an incredibly roundabout courtship with insuffrable millionaire snob Hugh Grant, here in fine and funny form. But how he frowns upon the antics of the unsophistcated Dashwood family--he is so cocky and critical you'll want to knock him off his high horse--but Emma Thompson can do that before he knows what hit him. She can get her "jabs" in swiftly, but humorously--Finally he begins falling under the enchantment of a woman he feels is so beneath him.! But by then she is "over him" and his arrogance--so he begins to try to change his ways.All of this is doled out with the usual eye-filling English countryside and handsome costumes, yet the film always seems to be about the careful interior lives of its characters. The director, an inspired choice, is Taiwan-born Ang Lee, who brings the same exquisite taste and discreet touch he displayed in his previous Asian films.
Thompson's script won an Oscar, and 1995 was a fine year for Jane Austen all around: "Persuasion" was made into an excellent picture, and "Emma" became the spritzy high school comedy!
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