Emma (1996)
83 %
Reviews Counted: 42 Fresh: 35 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 7.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Synopsis:
This adaptation of the Jane Austen novel focuses on Emma, a meddling but well-meaning 21-year-old, who LOVES to play matchmaker. She's currently obsessed with finding the perfect man for her friend Harriet. But what appears to be a simple task becomes a nightmare, as Emma's machinations set... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming, Jeremy Northam, Ewan McGregor
Director: Douglas McGrath
Story: Jane Austen
Screenwriter: Douglas McGrath
Composer: Rachel Portman
Producer: Patrick Cassavetti, Steven M. Haft
Story: Jane Austen
Screenwriter: Douglas McGrath
Composer: Rachel Portman
Producer: Patrick Cassavetti, Steven M. Haft
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08/19/06 04:33 AM
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01/26/06 03:15 AM
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This Emma is light, airy and modern -- surely Austen's funniest work.
04/09/05 03:23 AM
While Sense and Sensibility loves subtlety, silence, and space, and Persuasion loves realism, repression, and understatement, Emma loves its star Gwyneth Paltrow and all the colorful scenes she inhabits.
12/06/04 05:10 PM
McGrath pokes gentle fun at the over-refinements of privileged gentility, though not without enjoying its trappings and honoring its best aspirations.
05/31/04 10:46 AM
Gwyneth Paltrow makes a resplendent Emma, gliding through the film with an elegance and patrician wit that bring the young Katharine Hepburn to mind.
05/20/03 05:04 PM
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Although it is a very fine film, I found the pace a little slow in places as it wandered off the mark.
03/16/03 08:06 AM
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