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DVD : PersuasionIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Anthony Head, Alice Krige, Marion Bailey, Peter Wight, Rupert Penry-Jones directed by: Adrian Shergold  List Price: $19.98 Amazon.com's Price: $15.99 You Save: $3.99 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0883929005475 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: BBC Warner Manufacturer: BBC Warner Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: BBC Warner Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 15, 2008 Running Time: 93 minutes Studio: BBC Warner Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Sales Rank: 1387 MPN: WARDE36150D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Jane Austen’s romantic masterpiece comes to DVD in a thrilling new production from the BBC and Masterpiece Theatre. Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with a fortune and rank, she can only watch as every eligible young woman in the district falls at his feet. Amazon.com: Jane Austen fans will delight in the sumptuous production design and first-rate acting in the 2007 Masterpiece Theatre version of Persuasion. Sally Hawkins is controlled and moving as Anne Elliot, the quietly heartbroken but sensible heroine who was "persuaded" (read: forced) to turn away her true love but still carries an unseen torch for him. Hawkins's performance is genteel yet steely, and the quiet strength of the entire production. Hawkins looks alternately quietly lovely and sadly pinched--as one might expect the long frustrated Anne to look. Other highlights include a post-Buffy Anthony Head, as Anne's clueless, blustery father, Sir Walter. Head gets to turn on his deft comic talent here in ways most American audiences have not yet seen him; he's clearly enjoying himself immensely, blustering about "my shrubberies" and other trivial affairs. The cinematography is lush (several breathtaking tracking shots are used, especially early on), as are the period costumes. The production was filmed exclusively on location, and the reality of the sets enforces the story. Some fans may prefer the 1995 Amanda Root version, for the casting of Ciaran Hinds as Capt. Wentworth, but this later effort is a worthy entry in the Austen film oeuvre--and Rupert Penry-Jones is a dreamboat in his own right. As the wistful Anne says, on behalf of all women, "We do not forget you, so soon as you forget us." --A.T. Hurley Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Emotionally chargedNo, it's not quite like the book. Is any movie as great as the book? I, too, enjoyed the earlier film version of this. The lighting and scenery are more beautiful than this one. However, I really enjoyed this version. The ordinary way it was presented made it feel more real, like I was there instead of watching a movie. I'm not an Austen expert, but having read the book I thought it captured the spirit of it. Captain Wentworth was SMOKIN', plus I identified with Anne immediately. It ended ... Read More Rating:  - Hmmm...Well, I haven't read the book yet, so I can't say from personal experience how accurate this adaption is, but I've heard there are serious liberties taken. As an ignorant viewer, however, I thought the movie was pretty good. The only things the were irksome were: 1) Sally Hawkins. I didn't dislike her portrayal of Anne Elliot, but there were things that bothered me: for example, she seems to be constantly kind of wavering, or on the brink of panic, or something. I just got tired of her little panting, ... Read More Rating: - Good fall late night quite movieThough is is not like the book; I found more enjoyable then the book. I love Jane Austen, but Persuasion was a bore, until the ending chapters. The movies that are close to the book are boring, this is enjoyable. How she gets his letter is lame, and the kiss is horrid, I have to fast forward through it, they look so unpleasant. Rating: - Austen adaptionsIt seems a lot of JANE AUSTEN book readers buy the film adaptions, just to criticise them. Stop it. This adaption of PERSUASION is thoroughly entertaining. Only ninety minutes long, short enough to watch daily. It has a beginning, a middle and a happy ending. What more could you want? It is as good as the BBC P & P, without having to wait for hours and hours to see what happens. Serious AUSTEN readers should not buy DVD's or go to the movies, they should stick to books. Anyone else will enjoy ... Read More Rating:  - A messI have enjoyed many of the new BBC Jane Austen productions (Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility), so I had high hopes for Persuasion, my favorite Austen book. It started out well, and I rather liked the choice of a younger less weather beaten Captain Wentworth. Yet by the end I was shaking my head and couldn't wait for it to end. Sally Hawkins was a mopey Anne, who never did seem to get her bloom back. And the scriptwriter--what happened? Did he/she get drunk halfway through and decide to toss Austen's ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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