MONSTER-IN-LAW: Modern-day P&P?
A review of the Jane Fonda/Jennifer Lopez film MONSTER-IN-LAW compares it to Pride and Prejudice.
P.S. FOR TEENS: The conflict between a would-be daughter-in-law and her fiance’s mother in “Monster-in-Law” is an age-old theme in comedy, drama and real-life — an overly possessive parent believing no one is good enough for her child. Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” written nearly 200 years ago, has wonderful scenes between the heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, and Mr. Darcy’s snooty aunt (his parents are dead). The lady disapproves of the middle-class Elizabeth and fears her aristocratic nephew may want to marry beneath his station.
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May 26th, 2005 at 6:51 am
Well, if it gets the kind of people who’d watch that type of film reading Austen… or just reading generally for that matter. No offence intended; the film just doesn’t look that, how shall I put it, “demanding”?