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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.
I 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.
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.
The film is packed with pleasing performances by stage-trained actors.
Told with deft skill and a pleasantly humorous romantic touch.
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.
Thompson and Winslet give fine performances ably supported by the rest of the ensemble.
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.
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