Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 171
Fresh: 146 | Rotten: 25
Sure, it's another adaptation of cinema's fave Jane Austen novel, but key performances and a modern filmmaking sensibility make this familiar period piece fresh and enjoyable.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 5
Sure, it's another adaptation of cinema's fave Jane Austen novel, but key performances and a modern filmmaking sensibility make this familiar period piece fresh and enjoyable.
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Jane Austen's perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. The Bennets (Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland) are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their means but well short of rich, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are looking for suitable husbands for their girls, and they are encouraged to learn that an eligible young bachelor from a wealthy family, Charles Bingley
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Cast
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Keira Knightley
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Matthew MacFadyen
Mr. Darcy -
Brenda Blethyn
Mrs. Bennet -
Donald Sutherland
Mr. Bennet -
Tom Hollander
William Collins -
Rosamund Pike
Jane Bennet -
Jena Malone
Lydia Bennet -
Judi Dench
Lady Catherine De Bourg... -
Kelly Reilly
Caroline Bingley -
Claudie Blakley
Charlotte Lucas -
Peter Wight
Mr. Gardiner -
Rupert Friend
Lt. Wickham -
Tamzin Merchant
Georgiana Darcy -
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Penelope Wilton
Mrs. Gardiner -
Carey Mulligan
Kitty Bennet -
Talulah Riley
Mary Bennet -
Simon Woods
Charles Bingley
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All Critics (171) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (149) | Rotten (25) | DVD (24)
It's a fitfully engaging romance, it's just not Pride and Prejudice.
Top CriticKeira's cat-smile suggests such supernal all-knowingness that, with Austen's adapted dialogue (via Deborah Moggach) tripping off her tongue, she comes off as an eighteenth-century Maureen Dowd.
Dare I say that even Jane Austen herself would have delighted in the final triumph of Ms. Knightley's quick-witted Elizabeth in this film? Yes, I do, and all the highbrow and middlebrow cinephobes of the world be damned.
I just feel like I've seen this so many times.
As historically authentic-looking as Pride & Prejudice is, it has far more invested in emotional authenticity -- you feel engaged every moment.
Wright's Pride is a boisterous, loud, dance-mad kind of place, full of ruddy-faced peasants, dirt and hay. The whole thing feels like it was art-directed by Bruegel on holiday.
This movie was stuffy, boring, cumbersome and all around annoying to me.
oe Wright should be applauded for delivering a vividly realised Austen adap -- one which confirms Knightley has graduated from the Jackie Bisset of the '00s to this decade's Julie Christie.
OMG I loved this movie so much that I have to turn in my Manly Man Club ID card now.
Pride and Prejudice is a gorgeous and well-acted adaptation.
Director Joe Wright's filmic rendition of Jane Austin's classic novel is sumptuous but never fussy.
Gorgeous Jane Austen adaptation.
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Quite literally, a delightful surprise.
... the classic chick flick story long before any flick found the word chick.
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Luminous visuals, subtle thematic statements, and fine acting. A lovely period piece that surely will stand the test of time.
Una película irónica y romántica, con lujos de ambientación y fotografía, fiel al espíritu de la novela de Jane Austen en que se basa.
Breathes new life into characters and conversations never before quite wholly free from the printed page.
The best parts of the film are the punctuation. The moments away from all that rambling clever dialogue.
You don't have to love great literature to love this film. It's a beautiful romance wrapped in a vibrant package of English countryside life
I wasn't moved by the romance, but the lush art direction, pretty music and gorgeous cinematography did get to me.
I'm not saying you should love it; just respect it.
A aura de inevitabilidade da conclusão torna a experiência relativamente previsível, mas a trajetória até o desfecho é, sem dúvida alguma, repleta de charme.
Audience Reviews for Pride and Prejudice
Super Reviewer
As to the cast, the highlight here is Keira. She is fantastic as Lizzie. The actor playing Darcy, I agree with a previous reviewer - he looks constipated.
Carey Milligan doesn't have a lot to do here but giggle. Jenna Malone I couldn't even recognize. The parents I found tiresome.
The movie itself looks great and there are some nice shots here.
I am very mixed on this movie. I didn't like the message a whole lot - particularly the 15 year old sister. However, I realize different times. At least Lizzie was a little older and spirited. I guess I am still thinking about it a day later, so it must work in some level...
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- Charlotte Lucas: Not all of us can afford to be romantic.
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- Mr. Darcy: You have bewitched me in body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.
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- Elizabeth Bennet: From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, made me realize that you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.
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- Elizabeth Bennet: I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry. [thunder]
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- Elizabeth Bennet: No! No. You may only call me 'Mrs. Darcy'... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.
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- Elizabeth Bennet: [playing the piano] You mean to frighten me Mr. Darcy by coming in all your state to hear me. But I won't be alarmed even if your sister does play so well.
- Mr. Darcy: I'm well enough acquainted with you, Miss Elizabeth, that I cannot alarm you even if I should wish it.
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