Title: "Shreds and Patches"
Product review: This is a poor man's version of Austen's late masterpiece. Full of odd cuts, misrepresentations, and a generally rushed job feeling throughout, this adaptation makes one wonder who considered it worthy to film in the first place. Some of the Complete Jane Austen entries, after all, will be repeats of earlier TV versions, and the Amanda Root/Ciaran Hinds "Persuasion" of several years back is in all respects infinitely superior to this mishmash. The closest equivalent to what has been done here to a great work is what the Reader's Digest routinely used to do when it would blithely maim a novel of merit and then foist it upon the general public as "a Condensed Book."
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