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Release Date:
30 March 2008 (USA) more
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations more
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Cast

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Hattie Morahan ... Elinor Dashwood (3 episodes, 2008)
Charity Wakefield ... Marianne Dashwood (3 episodes, 2008)

Janet McTeer ... Mrs. Dashwood (3 episodes, 2008)

David Morrissey ... Colonel Brandon (3 episodes, 2008)
Dan Stevens ... Edward Ferrars (3 episodes, 2008)

Dominic Cooper ... Willoughby (3 episodes, 2008)
Lucy Boynton ... Margaret Dashwood (3 episodes, 2008)
Linda Bassett ... Mrs. Jennings (3 episodes, 2008)
Mark Williams ... Sir John Middleton (3 episodes, 2008)
Claire Skinner ... Fanny Dashwood (3 episodes, 2008)

Rosanna Lavelle ... Lady Middleton (3 episodes, 2008)
Mark Gatiss ... John Dashwood (2 episodes, 2008)

Caroline Hayes ... Eliza (2 episodes, 2008)
David S. Glover ... Foot (2 episodes, 2008)
Daisy Haggard ... Miss Steele (2 episodes, 2008)

Anna Madeley ... Lucy Steele (2 episodes, 2008)
Leo Bill ... Robert Ferrars (2 episodes, 2008)
Morgan Overton ... Little Henry (2 episodes, 2008)
Tim McMullan ... Mr. Palmer (2 episodes, 2008)
Tabitha Wady ... Charlotte Palmer (2 episodes, 2008)
Roy Holder ... Thomas (2 episodes, 2008)
David Glover ... Foot (2 episodes, 2008)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
Russia:180 min (2 parts) | 180 min (3 parts)
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1.78 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The green linen coat with pink flowers at the waist Daisy Haggard (Anne Steele) wears in London is the same costume Morven Christie (Jane Bennet) wears at Longbourn in "Lost in Austen" (2008), Lucy Davis (Maria Lucas) wears leaving Hunsford in "Pride and Prejudice" (1995), and Amanda Hale (Mary Musgrove) wears on the long walk to Winthrop in Persuasion (2007) (TV). more
Goofs:
Continuity: The scene: Elinor finds Edward chopping wood in the rain. We see Elinor approaching with her arms holding the shawl over her head and shoulders. When the shot shifts and we see Elinor from her back, the shawl is covering only her head, with arms over the shawl. more
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Soundtrack:
Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain more

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Jolt of a lifetime..., 18 April 2008
10/10
Author: peterquennell from United States

Truth is, my wife is (was) the family's one Jane Austen addict so I had zero inkling up-front of the two truly extraordinary story arcs. To say that this production is one wild, nail-biting roller-coaster ride is putting it pretty mildly.

To follow Hattie Morahan's warm, kind, brave and hypnotically beautiful Elinor through to her dismal and heart-breaking dead-end in life, via a seeming never-ending series of emotional whacks... that's story-telling of the most profoundest kind.

And then into that truly stunning few moments where eyes are absolutely GLUED to Elinor's quivering back... that's movie-making beyond awesome.

I've dutifully watched the movie version too now. These REALLY go well together. The movie is intensely beautiful to look at and has great crowd scenes. Highly worth watching for the alternative take on the Marianne story; I liked it without necessarily preferring it. Each version has some dialog that greatly helps understand points in the other.

No review I've read yet has mentioned the great voice-over commentary on the DVD. Director, producer and four leads. Nice happy family that one is. Hattie Morahan is self-effacing almost to the point of invisibility, but she has a truly great laugh we hear often. Remarks by "Edward" and "Marianne" and "Willoughby" are warm, funny and at times really insightful, and leave one liking each of them a lot.

Plus we hear just how the director and producer arrived at many of their outcomes, adjusted things post-production, set up the scenes in the many houses and the studios, struggled for continuity, and came up with that proposal scene - told in that self-effacing and often funny British way, but they're true talents.

And Janeites, please get this: the team makes it increasingly clear that there are several hours of unused scenes still in the can. They are not offered here on this DVD. So, a 4-or-5-hour director's-cut version? Okay. You know what to do...

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