Rotten
It's a fitfully engaging romance, it's just not Pride and Prejudice.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Pride & Prejudice
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
2005 · 2h 7m · PG
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Joe Wright
Overview
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Director and cast
- Joe Wright Director
- Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet
- Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy
- Brenda Blethyn as Mrs. Bennet
- Rosamund Pike as Jane Bennet
- Carey Mulligan as Kitty Bennet
- Jena Malone as Lydia Bennet
- Talulah Riley as Mary Bennet
- Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennet
- Simon Woods as Mr. Bingley
- Judi Dench as Lady Catherine de Bourg
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Keira's cat-smile suggests such supernal all-knowingness that, with Austen's adapted dialogue (via Deborah Moggach) tripping off her tongue, she comes off as an eighteenth-century Maureen Dowd.
Ken Tucker, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
Wright wastes no time in squeezing the plot into his just-over-two hours running time, but the film never feels rushed, particularly when so much of it is spent watching and waiting, as the characters come to understand the world they live in.
Keith Phipps, AV Club
Fresh
Dare I say that even Jane Austen herself would have delighted in the final triumph of Ms. Knightley's quick-witted Elizabeth in this film? Yes, I do, and all the highbrow and middlebrow cinephobes of the world be damned.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten
I just feel like I've seen this so many times.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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