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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790770246
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, NTSC
ISBN: 0790770245
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 24, 2004
Running Time: 270 minutes
Sales Rank: 42388
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
This splendid dramatization brings to life all the glorious wit and sharp humor of arguably Jane Austen's finest novel recreating her most irritatingly endearing female character Emma of whom she wrote 'no one but myself could like.' Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm but she will find that it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification. The often sensitive ever well-meaning incorrigible Emma Woodhouse having engineered the marriage of governess companion and friend Miss Taylor now turns her attention towards making a match for Mr. Elton the local vicar and her new protege Harriett Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightly who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behavior with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger.Running Time: 257 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 794051168429
Amazon.com:
The key to any Jane Austen adaptation is finding the perfect balance of romantic yearning and savage, satirical wit. Austen's Emma has these two qualities at their most exquisite and tantalizing, and this BBC adaptation from 1972 serves the novel with complete satisfaction. Delightful Doran Godwin captures not only the title character's good nature and resilient will, but also her exasperating self-satisfaction and ungovernable manipulative impulses. Believing herself to be acting in everyone's best interests, Emma takes the lower-class Harriet Smith (Debbie Bowen) under her wing and sets out to find the girl a suitable husband, disregarding what havoc she wreaks along the way. Her foolish father (Donald Eccles) cannot temper Emma's fancies; only the stern Mr. Knightly (John Carson) offers any reason or restraint. This sprightly adaptation is far superior to the mediocre 1996 film (starring Gwyneth Paltrow) and on par with the ingenious Clueless, which cunningly translates the story to a Beverly Hills high school. The luxurious span of a six-part miniseries gives this version the opportunity to revel in Emma's every deliciously misguided moment. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Surprisingly Great Movie
I purchased this movie because of my favorite British actor, John Carson. I was actually pretty pleased with this movie. It is a "video" movie, shot on a sound stage using video rather than film and rather bland and washed out with minimal sets and furniture -- no shadows, no "realism," but still a great movie. I didn't think I would outlast it, but I found I couldn't shut it off -- I found it rather good. It's a bit long, drawn out and at times tedious, you really have to pay attention to who's ... Read More
Rating: - Poor casting ruins a decent screenplay
This Emma follows the book faithfully, which means that there is plenty that could be cut. The main problem is the lead actors. They are much too old to be 21 year old Emma and 36 year old Mr. Knightley. If you want to see an Emma that is light and funny and sweet, like the spirit of the novel, get the 1996 A&E/BBC production starring Kate Beckinsale.
Rating:  - Emma
One of Jane Austen's really enjoyable classics. Great for a cozy evenilng in front of fire.
Rating:  - It's engaging
Quite good. Godwin portrayed Emma in a style I thought more in keeping with Austen's character; not beautiful, and very human. Knightley wasn't too old or wooden; his hesitancy in the film conveyed the hesitancy that a man in that type of relationship in that period would feel towards a woman of Emma's age (a hesitancy, perhaps even of today). I thought the costumes and interiors were of the period. The absence of servants was too evident, but that's the way Austen writes -- her characters just ... Read More
Rating: - Very Good
Great Adaptation. I think that in some ways I liked the way Jane Fairfax was played better in this version than the one Gwyneth Paltrow was in. I think that the interfering Mrs Elton was also played very well.
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