Title: Nothing but its name to recommend it
Product review: I belong to the school of thought that proclaims "A bad Austen is better than no Austen" but friends, this is the most appalling film adaptation of ANY Austen novel. It is as though the people responsible for this disaster were DESPERATE to distance themselves from the perfection that is the 1995 film with Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root. To achieve this lofty goal, they set out to hire ALL the wrong people: Screenwriter, Director, Actors and Photographers. The result--the Anti-Austen, or rather, Austen Lite--a film reduced to a melodrama that surely has the author spinning in her grave. All the opportunities that make this a most wonderful book were cast aside. The result: A spiritless, emotionless and humorless film--and a colossal waste of an evening. What a shame!
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