Pride & Prejudice

4.33
    Pride & Prejudice
    2005

    Synopsis

    A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

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    Cast

    • Keira KnightleyElizabeth Bennet
    • Matthew MacfadyenFitzwilliam Darcy
    • Brenda BlethynMrs. Bennet
    • Donald SutherlandMr. Bennet
    • Tom HollanderWilliam Collins
    • Rosamund PikeJane Bennet
    • Jena MaloneLydia Bennet
    • Judi DenchCatherine de Bourgh
    • Kelly ReillyCaroline Bingley
    • Claudie BlakleyCharlotte Lucas

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Entertainment Weekly

      Keira Knightley, in a witty, vibrant, altogether superb performance, plays Lizzie's sparky, questing nature as a matter of the deepest personal sacrifice.
    • 100

      Christian Science Monitor

      In the end, the finest achievement of Wright's movie is that it fully captures what Martin Amis, writing on Pride and Prejudice, said of Austen: "Money is a vital substance in her world; the moment you enter it you feel the frank horror of moneylessness, as intense as the tacit horror of spinsterhood." All that, and a great love story, too.
    • 90

      Dallas Observer

      There's something more REAL about this version, more human, more lived-in; though their words may have been penned 200 years ago, when Austen was a young woman writing about her idealized self, this cast and crew nudge the material into the now.
    • 88

      ReelViews

      Of Austen's novels, none is more beloved than this one, so it's good to see it once again brought to the screen with the pride which it deserves.
    • 88

      Chicago Tribune

      At the end, director Wright wraps the whole thing up with a fairy-tale coda more Shakespearean than Austen-tine. Yet it all works.
    • 80

      Variety

      A movie for the age, and a keeper for the ages, Pride & Prejudice brings Jane Austen's best-loved novel to vivid, widescreen life, as well as making an undisputed star of 20-year-old Keira Knightley.
    • 80

      The A.V. Club

      Most importantly, the director, script, and cast (rounded out by Judi Dench and well-placed imports Donald Sutherland and Jena Malone) all recognize that Austen is about much more than pretty costumes and knowing looks.
    • 75

      Rolling Stone

      Romantic yearning hasn't looked this sexy onscreen in years.

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