Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Reviews Counted: 52
Fresh: 51 | Rotten: 1
Sense and Sensibility is an uncommonly deft, very funny Jane Austen adaptation, marked by Emma Thompson's finely tuned performance.
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 1
Sense and Sensibility is an uncommonly deft, very funny Jane Austen adaptation, marked by Emma Thompson's finely tuned performance.
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The recipient of seven Oscar (R) nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier marriage. While sorting out the family's affairs, the shy, self-sacrificing Elinor secretly falls for her stepbrother-in-law, Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant), a sensitive, well-educated bachelor who cannot
Dec 14, 1995 Wide
Jan 1, 1998
Columbia Pictures
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Cast
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Emma Thompson
Elinor Dashwood -
Alan Rickman
Colonel Brandon -
Kate Winslet
Marianne Dashwood -
Hugh Grant
Edward Ferrars -
James Fleet
John Dashwood -
Greg Wise
John Willoughby -
Harriet Walter
Fanny Dashwood -
Oliver Ford Davies
Doctor Harris -
Robert Hardy
Sir John Middleton -
Gemma Jones
Mrs. Dashwood -
Hugh Laurie
Thomas Palmer -
Elizabeth Spriggs
Mrs. Jennings -
Imelda Staunton
Charlotte Palmer -
Imogen Stubbs
Lucy Steele -
Tom Wilkinson
Mr. Dashwood -
Alexander John
Curate -
Emile Francois
Margaret Dashwood -
Richard Lumsden
Robert Ferrars -
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All Critics (53) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (52) | Rotten (1) | DVD (8)
Thompson's script manages the neat trick of preserving the necessary niceties and decorum of civilized behavior of the time while still cutting to the dramatic quick.
Top CriticI can't say I remembered this 1995 feature too clearly a couple of days later; but I certainly had a good time as I watched it.
Thompson and Winslet give fine performances ably supported by the rest of the ensemble.
We need no further proof that this material is ageless.
The sensibility may be a bit off, but there is more than enough sense involved in this mid-Atlantic Austen to make up the difference.
Sense and Sensibility is an enjoyable film, and yet it left me somehow unsatisfied.
A lush and witty telling of Jane Austen's novel.
A stylish, witty and substantial adaptation of Jane Austen's novel.
For once, Thompson turns in a gimmick-free performance, and the rest of the actors range from fine to fabulous.
A little funny, a bit sad, an all-around entertaining.
Unlike most of the usual rolling hills, costume period drama, Merchant-Ivory type, century-old novel movies, Sense and Sensibility succeeds quite handily.
A little funny, a bit sad, and all-around entertaining.
Though old-fashioned, this version of Austen's popular book is most enjoyable due to Ang Lee's skillfull helming, Emma Thompson's astute screenplay, which deservedly won the Oscar, and excellent ensemble headed by Thompson and Kate Winslet.
Enduring love, heartbreak, undying passion and bitter betrayal. What more could you ask from Jane Austen, and for that matter, from a film?
Seeing a world that seems kinder, gentler, nobler and simpler to our own can have its own theraputic value.
A host of fine performances support the great screenplay, photography and editing of the film.
Audience Reviews for Sense and Sensibility
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- Marianne Dashwood: Do you compare your conduct with his? No. I compare it with what it ought to have been; I compare it with yours.
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- Marianne Dashwood: Fanny wishes to know where the key to the silver cabinet is kept.
- Elinor Dashwood: Betsy has it I think. What does Fanny want with the silver?
- Marianne Dashwood: One can only presume she wants to count it! What are you doing?
- Marianne Dashwood: Presents for the servants. Have you seen Margaret by the way? I'm worried about her, she's taking to hiding in the oddest places.
- Marianne Dashwood: Fortunate girl. At least she can escape Fanny, which is more than any of us is able.
- Elinor Dashwood: You do your best. You've not said a word to her for a week.
- Marianne Dashwood: I have. I've said, 'Yes' and 'No'.
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- Marianne Dashwood: Willoughby!
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- Colonel Brandon: Give me an occupation, Miss Dashwood, or I shall run mad.
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- Elinor Dashwood: What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.
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Foreign Titles
- Sinn und Sinnlichkeit (DE)
- Sentido y Sensibilidad (ES)
