Persuasion is Movie of the Day at IMDB
Persuasion is the Movie of the Day at IMDB — catch it while you can, because as Miz Scarlett said, tomorrow is another day.
From the writeup:
Romantic comedies, British style, enjoyed a renaissance in the ’90s thanks primarily to a newfound ardor for one of Britain’s most famous novelists, Jane Austen. A master (or is that mistress?) of British social mores, Our Miss Austen could navigate through society and matters of the heart like a minesweeper on a particularly bad battlefield. Mixing sharp comedy with social satire and a big dollop of romance, Austen’s comedies took a bit of a torturous path getting to their happy endings, but her protagonists never lost their moxie or their strength; they’re truly modern heroines. While Gwyneth Paltrow made an appropriately nosy Emma and the dynamic duo of Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet provided the charm and charisma for Sense and Sensibility, the best of the recent Austen adaptations was 1995’s bittersweet Persuasion, a little-seen but much-loved BBC production that made a splash in American theaters. Amanda Root is the suitably shy and oppressed heroine who comes to realize that the man she loved and gave up–after being told she could find a more suitable match–might in fact be the one she was meant for all the time. This charming comedy put director Roger Michell on the map, the man who later guided Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts over Notting Hill.












