Mirage Production Lindsay Doran, Producer
When Henry Dashwood (Tom Wilkinson) dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass by law to his son from his first marriage, John (James Fleet) and wife Fanny (Harriet Walter). But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife (Gemma Jones), and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret (Emilie François), without a home and barely enough money to live on. Though John and Fanny inherit the family's vast estate, it is Fanny's shy, charming brother Edward (Hugh Grant) who captures Elinor's heart. But before Elinor and Edward have a chance to express their tentative feelings for each other, Fanny - who dislikes Elinor and disapproves of her comparative poverty - contrives an excuse to send Edward off to London. In their cramped new quarters, Elinor struggles to keep a tight rein on the family purse strings, and to keep her longing for Edward hidden even from her mother and sisters. Marianne, however, becomes swept up in a passionate love affair with the dashing Willoughby (Greg Wise), a very public romance conducted with so little prudence by Marianne that it earns her sister's disapproval and ends in heartbreak. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men. Based on Jane Austen's first novel, written 200 years ago in 1795 but first published in 1811, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY marks the first big-screen adaptation of this classic romantic comedy. |
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is the story of two sisters: pragmatic, ironic Elinor (Emma Thompson) and passionate, willfull Marianne (Kate Winslet).
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