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Pride & Prejudice
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
2005 · Directed by Joe Wright · 128 min · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 56 frames
Tagline
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
Plot
During the late 18th century in England, Mr and Mrs Bennet and their daughters—Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia—live at Longbourn, their rural estate in Hertfordshire. Mrs Bennet, eager to secure suitable marriages for her daughters, is delighted when wealthy bachelor Charles Bingley moves into nearby Netherfield Hall.
At an assembly ball, Bingley, his sister Caroline, and his friend Mr Darcy meet the local society. Bingley and Jane are immediately taken with each other, while Elizabeth instantly dislikes the snobbish Darcy and overhears his dismissive remarks about her.
Later, visiting the Bingleys, Jane falls ill and must stay to recuperate. While Elizabeth is visiting Jane at Netherfield, she verbally spars with the haughty Caroline and the aloof Darcy. Jane recovers and, soon after, Mr Bennet's cousin Mr Collins, a pompous clergyman, visits the Bennets; as the closest male relative, Collins will inherit Longbourn as it is entailed on the male line.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Deborah Moggach
- Cinematography: Roman Osin
- Edited by: Paul Tothill
- Music: Dario Marianelli
- Production design: Sarah Greenwood
- Produced by: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
Cast
- Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet
- Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy
- Brenda Blethyn as Mrs. Bennet
- Rosamund Pike as Jane Bennet
- Carey Mulligan as Kitty Bennet
- Jena Malone as Lydia Bennet
- Talulah Riley as Mary Bennet
- Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennet
- Simon Woods as Mr. Bingley
- Judi Dench as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Production
- Country: France, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: StudioCanal, Working Title, Scion Films, Focus Features
- Budget: $28,000,000
- Box office: $124,604,345
- Themes: based on novel or book, england, bachelor, family relationships, suitor, prejudice, period drama, pride, 18th century, opposites attract
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