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Pride & Prejudice
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Pride & Prejudice reviews
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Metascore: 82 Metascore out of 100
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8.9 out of 10
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MPAA RATING: PG for some mild thematic element

Starring Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Simon Woods, and Judi Dench

Keira Knightly stars as Elizabeth Bennet in this classic tale of love and misunderstanding which unfolds in class-conscious England near the close of the 18th century. (Focus Features)


GENRE(S): Drama  |  Foreign  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Deborah Moggach
Jane Austen (novel)
 
DIRECTED BY: Joe Wright  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: February 28, 2006 
Video: February 28, 2006 
Theatrical: November 11, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 127 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: UK 

What The Critics Said

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100
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Keira Knightley, in a witty, vibrant, altogether superb performance, plays Lizzie's sparky, questing nature as a matter of the deepest personal sacrifice.
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100
Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
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.
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100
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The movie is well cast from top to bottom; like many British films, it benefits from the genius of its supporting players.
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100
USA Today Claudia Puig
This Pride & Prejudice is a stellar adaptation, bewitching the viewer completely and incandescently with an exquisite blend of emotion and wit.
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100
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The appealing Knightley goes in a promising young actress and comes out a star, but the faultless cast of veterans and fresh-faced newcomers imbues every character with flawed and immensely appealing humanity.
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100
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Jane Austen's novel has been rejiggered into a jaunty romantic comedy that leaves us as incandescently happy as its characters.
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100
Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Blissful, blazingly intelligent adaptation.
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100
San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
Deliriously charming.
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90
Slate David Edelstein
This Pride & Prejudice (ampersand and all) a joy to behold.
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90
Newsweek David Ansen
Indoors, it's Jane Austen. Outdoors, this red-blooded, exuberantly romantic version of Pride and Prejudice plays more like Emily Brontë. Purists may object, but most will find this love story irresistible.
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90
Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
With outstanding performances, including a turn by Judi Dench as the evil Lady Catherine de Bourg, Pride & Prejudice is a joy from start to finish.
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90
The New York Times Stephen Holden
Gathers you up on its white horse and gallops off into the sunset. Along the way, it serves a continuing banquet of high-end comfort food perfectly cooked and seasoned to Anglophilic tastes.
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90
Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
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.
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89
Austin Chronicle Steve Davis
This fresh adaptation shakes the dust off Jane Austen's early 19th-century novel of manners and gives it a good airing out. The result is a witty and lovesick skirmish of the sexes that exceeds all expectations.
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88
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Seeing the splendid new version of Pride & Prejudice can be hazardous to your health: There's a very real danger of swooning.
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88
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
At the end, director Wright wraps the whole thing up with a fairy-tale coda more Shakespearean than Austen-tine. Yet it all works.
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88
ReelViews James Berardinelli
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.
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88
Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Whatever number it is chronologically on the P&P parade, Wright's film ranks first in verve. Quite simply, it is the essential P&P.
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83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Debera Carlton Harrell
It is historically evocative, visually transporting and an exuberant romantic comedy that adheres to its source while spinning its own artful energy.
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80
Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Still, the cynosure of all eyes is honest, articulate Elizabeth, her own woman in an era when women belonged to men, and at the same time full of love. Lizzie is the best, and Keira Knightley does right by her.
80
Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Lord God, can she take control of a scene, dominate a movie, project to the last seat, radiate power and personality unto the rafters. It's a great performance. I love the way Knightley's eyes light with furious intelligence when she cuts the pompous Darcy a new something or other.
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80
The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
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.
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80
Variety Derek Elley
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.
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80
Empire Angie Errigo
Not as divine as Ang Lee's "Sense and Sensibility," but engagingly comparable to the Gwyneth Paltrow-starring Emma and vastly superior to Mansfield Park.
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75
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Romantic yearning hasn't looked this sexy onscreen in years.
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75
Miami Herald Connie Ogle
This Pride & Prejudice isn't minutely faithful to the book -- and for good reason -- but it is authentic where it counts: to the confused, wounded, eager hearts of its lovers.
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75
New York Post Kyle Smith
This weekend, forget "Jarhead" - two hours of guys playing grab-ass in the shower and no chicks. If you're lucky, you can con your girlfriend into seeing Pride & Prejudice.
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70
The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
The present film-makers have retained the essences of the plot and characters but have moved the ambience toward the next stylistic era, romanticism.
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70
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The movie flames to life whenever Donald Sutherland moves into frame as the young ladies' relaxed, humorous, and magnificently rueful father.
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70
New York Magazine Ken Tucker
If only Knightley had a co-star equal to her here: The 1995 edition of Colin Firth, come to think of it, would have been perfect.
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70
Village Voice Jessica Winter
Director Joe Wright coordinates a delightfully cohesive acting ensemble.
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67
Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
The problem here is we never get much more than the pretty, the quaint and the comfortingly familiar. There's a place for such stuff in the world, yes, but that doesn't make it art.
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67
Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Director Joe Wright's new movie version of Pride and Prejudice is more Gene Kelly than Fred Astaire: more earthy and athletic than balletic.
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63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
This is Austen as chick-lit, not too deep, but with some integrity and the worthy goal of reaching a younger audience by offering a starch-free version of the story.
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63
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Handsome and competently acted and prettily shot and all the other things critics say when what they really want to scream is "Aaaaaaaargh! No more Jane Austen adaptations, ESPECIALLY not Pride and Prejudice.
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50
Premiere Glenn Kenny
The moviemakers are accomplished enough to make something coherent out of this tonal mishmash, but I was left with a "was this trip really necessary" feeling for all that.
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50
The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett
Turns Jane Austen's nimble satire into a lumbering gothic romance.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 8.9 (out of 10) based on 371 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Emmy S. gave it a2:
I much preferred the version made in 1995. I understand some prefer a shorter version, but I do not like the way they shortened it. I also think Keira Knightley was a terrible pick for Elizabeth, she totally missed it. She made Elizabeth much too snobby and irritating. I also thought the way she revealled her letter from Jane about Lydia was so stupid. They also seemed to be running everywhere. I did like some of the cast. But when there has been two very wonderful versiongs to Pride and Prejudice, if you can't make a version that at least competes with the other two than don't make one at all. I think the only reason there was anyone that liked it was because they either had never seen the previous films or they love Keira, although I personnally find her very annoying and the only thing I really liked her in was Pirates. But it is only my opinion.

Carissa B. gave it a1:
This movie could have been so much worse, but it could have been so much better (and is in the BBC version). For thos of you (which amazinly is a lot) obviously the storyline is good (right thats why its a classic). I'm grading this movie based on the acting and casting and scenery and costuming. One aspect of this movie that drove me wild was how fast the charcters talked. For those of you with high rating could you really understand half the stuff Elizabeth said?? Another part that was disapointing was the lack of color in the movie. Granted the Bennets are poor when compared to the extremem wealth of Bingley and Darcy but they aren't street rats they own an estate and therefore are much wealther than they are portrayed. Overall those of you that really liked this movie read the book, and watch the BBC version (which is just like the book almost word for word and so well done), and experience what Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice can be.

Nicole L gave it a10:
Brilliant and relatively faithful rendition of one of Jane Austen's most popular titles, not to mention a most endearing soundtrack. Knightely's and Macfayden's portrayal of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy respectively are most memorable and moving.

Martin J. gave it an8:
The U.S. ending is just awful - I liked much more the European one.

Jaci S. gave it a10:
I love this movie so much, whenever I'm in a bad mood i put this movie on and it makes me feel better. its got amazing plots and the acting is flawless. i love it.

Doreya S. gave it a10:
I loved this version better than the old version.I say that Keira Knightly was the best choice for Elizabeth.I wish everyone that stared in this movie,including the producer and director, a best, happy,and loving career.Oh! Keira Knightly don't worry about the people that don't like you because you was the best person for Elizabeth.

Lisa S. gave it a1:
Romance yes, but to make it more suitable for modern audiences the main themes are diluted or lost.

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