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Emma (1996)

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Reviews Counted:41

Fresh:34

Rotten:7

Average Rating:7.1/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min

Genre: Comedies

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... 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 off a chain reaction of misunderstandings between a number of people. Things only worsen when Emma attempts to set things straight. Emma may -- or may not -- succeed in finding a mate for her pal. But what's more important is that Emma will learn a few things about herself in the process. [More]

Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming, Jeremy Northam

Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming, Jeremy Northam, Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Juliet Stevenson, Sophie Thompson, Phyllida Law, James Cosmo, Denys Hawthorne, Kathleen Byron, Edward Woodall, Brett Miley, Brian Capron, Karen Westwood, Paul Williamson, Rebecca Craig, Angela Down, John Franklyn Robbins, Ruth Jones

Director: Douglas McGrath

Director: Douglas McGrath
Story: Jane Austen
Screenwriter: Douglas McGrath
Composer: Rachel Portman
Producer: Patrick Cassavetti, Steven M. Haft

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Jan 5, 1999

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  • Emma
  • This delightfully fun and lighthearted comedy is based on the story that inspired the hit movie CLUELESS! Dazzling Gwyneth Paltrow (SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS) shines as EMMA, a mischievous young beauty who sets up her single friends. Funny thing is ... she's not very good at it! So when Emma tries to find a man for Harriet (Toni Collette -- THE SIXTH SENSE, ABOUT A BOY), she makes a hilariously tangled mess of everyone's lives. You'll enjoy all the comic confusion ... until Emma herself falls in love, finally freeing everyone from her outrageously misguided attempts at matchmaking.
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    05/06/05
    Philip Martin
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    This Emma is light, airy and modern -- surely Austen's funniest work.

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    04/09/05
    Laura Clifford
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    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.

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    12/06/04
    Jeffrey Overstreet
    Jeffrey Overstreet
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    McGrath pokes gentle fun at the over-refinements of privileged gentility, though not without enjoying its trappings and honoring its best aspirations.

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    10/22/03
    Dragan Antulov
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    Gwyneth Paltrow makes a resplendent Emma, gliding through the film with an elegance and patrician wit that bring the young Katharine Hepburn to mind.

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    Janet Maslin
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    Jeanne Aufmuth
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    A good Jane Austen adaptation that can be watched over and over.

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    04/24/03
    Mark Robison
    Mark Robison
    Reno Gazette-Journal

    Fun, but pales next to the previous year's Clueless.

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    04/21/03
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
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    San Francisco Examiner

    Although it is a very fine film, I found the pace a little slow in places as it wandered off the mark.

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    03/16/03
    Robert Roten
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    Slightly fun, but really boring.

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    03/15/03
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