Fresh
The film offers the same pleasures as an Austen novel, as the audience sinks into a comforting, orderly world where life-shattering disruptions are handled with elegant ease.
Caryn James, New York Times
Persuasion
A love lost, but never forgotten in this new BBC dramatization
1995 · 1h 44m · PG
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Roger Michell
Overview
Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth – the dashing one she once sent away – crashes back into her life, Anne must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart when it comes to second chances.
Director and cast
- Roger Michell Director
- Amanda Root as Anne Elliott
- Ciarán Hinds as Captain Frederick Wentworth
- Susan Fleetwood as Lady Russell
- Corin Redgrave as Sir Walter Elliot
- Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Croft
- John Woodvine as Admiral Croft
- Phoebe Nicholls as Elizabeth Elliot
- Samuel West as Mr. Elliot
- Sophie Thompson as Mary Musgrave
- Simon Russell Beale Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Austen fans: Prepare to be swept away.
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Persuasion is Jane without pain, E-Z Austen. It's a delight.
Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle
Fresh
Michell's approach to Persuasion indicates that he is the rarest of literary translators -- one who is genuinely interested in a work's themes, its characters and what the author has to say about the world in which they exist.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Fresh
Much of the movie's emotional work has to be done by...faces and eyes, while other people speak of other things, and to see that happening is frustrating, because it happens so slowly, and romantic, because it happens at all.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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