Sense and Sensibility (2008)

Directed by

John Alexander

Genre

drama film, drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 3 episodes

Rated

14

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 126 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, must navigate love and hardship after their father's death leaves them financially insecure. They face romantic entanglements and social pressures that test their contrasting approaches to sense and sensibility.

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What happens

Sense and Sensibility is a 2008 British television drama adaptation of Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies, who said that the aim of the series was to make viewers forget Ang Lee's 1995 film Sense and Sensibility. The series was "more overtly sexual" than previous Austen adaptations, and Davies included scenes featuring a seduction and a duel that are suggested in Austen's book but were absent from the feature film. Sense and Sensibility was directed by John Alexander and produced by Anne Pivcevic. Hattie Morahan and Charity Wakefield starred as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, two sisters who go on "a voyage of burgeoning sexual and romantic discovery". The series was shot on location in the English counties of Berkshire, Surrey, Buckinghamshire and Devon for two months from April 2007. Sense and Sensibility was co-produced by the BBC and American studio WGBH Boston. It was aired in three parts from 1 January 2008 in the United Kingdom and attracted an average of 6 million viewers per episode. The first episode also became one of the top ten most streamed programmes on the BBC iPlayer. Sense and Sensibility garnered mostly positive reviews from television critics, while the cast and crew earned several award nominations for their work. It was released on a two-disc DVD in the UK on 14 January 2008. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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