Alicia I love this movie so much

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

phd_travel Firstly the good points. Beautifully filmed with authentic on location shooting in Bath and the countryside. The village scenes are straight out of an 18th Century painting. Simple and effective use of piano music as a score.The great fault is the casting of the leads. Cirian Hinds is the least romantic looking actor. He has such a fierce forbidding face suitable for character roles but totally wrong for a man in love. Amanda Root is just too plain. I know she is supposed to be bordering on old maid but she is just so insipid looking no one could carry a torch for her. There is no chemistry between them.What a waste of a good production. I don't recommend you watch this or it will spoil your image of the story.

didi-5 Persuasion is perhaps not so obvious a choice to adapt from Jane Austen's work as her better known novels, but it still a rattlingly good love story. Like Mansfield Park, it features the navy for many of it's main male characters, but the heroine, Anne Eliot, is an older and wiser girl than Mansfield's Fanny Price.This adaptation is fairly short, around 1 hour 40 minutes, but it does remain fairly close to the book. Amanda Root is an excellent Anne, while her snobbish father, sister, and friend are played respectively well by Corin Redgrave, Phoebe Nicholls, and Susan Fleetwood.Captain Wentworth and Mr Eliott are perfectly cast - Ciaran Hinds shows reserve, regret, and restraint in his portrayal of a man already scarred by rejection and scared to hope, while Samuel West is foppish but not silly as the opportunist cousin seeking a fortune.Persuasion looks great despite it's limited budget, and engages itself to viewers in an understated way - all the better for it.

stormygail50 i really liked this movie and thought that i might not at first. the story was very well done by the actors, Amanda root was an excellent choice for Anne Elliot as was ciaran hinds for captain Frederick Wentworth. i loved watching how Frederick tried not to show his feelings for Anne and how Anne tried valiantly not to show how he hurt her. so real life . i was a little disconcerted by the display of emotion at the end as i thought that would not have actually happened in Jane Austin day but was delighted on a personal level. i loved the costumes and the scenery of this movie, it was well directed, and the sub plots were just strong enough and did not interfere with the main story line. that is an important thing for me. i felt i would have liked this movie as i have seen ciaran hinds in Jane Eyre and he had done an excellent job in portraying Mr. Rochester.

Amy Adler Ann (Amanda Root) is the daughter of a spendthrift aristocrat (Corin Redgrave). When funds run low, the family is forced to vacate their stately mansion, rent the house to a retired Navy admiral, and move to smaller quarters in Bath. Ann's sister and father run off blithely, leaving Ann to tie up the loose ends of the arrangement. A kind and wealthy neighbor lady offers help but Ann, who once followed the lady's advice in rejecting a worthy man's proposal, confides to the neighbor that she should have accepted the offer. Nevertheless, Ann is impressed by the new tenants of their house and is startled to learn that the admiral's wife is the sister of the man Ann rejected long ago. As Ann trots off to visit another sister (Sophie Thompson) and her two young boys, she runs into her former admirer, Captain Wentworth. Only now, their situations are reversed, for the Captain has gained wealth and reputation while Ann's monetary funding is in decline. And, he ignores Ann for the most part and concentrates his attentions on the pretty younger sisters of Ann's brother in law. Ann, however, soon realizes she still loves him. What's a poor girl to do? This is a very fine movie, lovely to look at and featuring great performances, too. Thompson is an absolute stitch while the the other cast members, including Redgrave and Fiona Shaw, are first rate. Root is a conundrum, giving a very nice, quietly thoughtful performance but she does not have the dazzling appearance of most leading ladies. Perhaps, that is what Austen would have wanted. Costumes and scenery are of the put-your-eye-out variety. The main problem of the film is that it assumes too much, that the viewer is familiar with the book. Instead, the movie watcher is thrown into the Georgian world, without sufficient explanations of what is occurring or why. Most other adaptations of a well-loved book will, subtly, inform the viewer of the reasons behind the action, but not this one. Therefore, one may have to view the film a second time or sit down and read the wonderful book to feel the full impact of the movie's story. But, then again, nevermind. This is a lovely, classy film with an amazing set of characters and situations. Do not let anyone, even this reviewer, persuade you from getting this film tonight. It is totally worthy of much praise.