Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility (2008)
Studio/Network: BBC Drama co-production with WGBH Boston
Producer: Anne Pivcevic
Executive Producer: Jessica Pope
Director: John Alexander
Screenplay by: Andrew Davies
DVD: Available
VHS: Not Available
Run time: 2 hrs 54 mins.
PBS Masterpiece Theater "The Complete Jane Austen" site
Cast (
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Elinor Dashwood - Hattie Morahan
Marianne Dashwood - Charity Wakefield
Margaret Dashwood - Lucy Boynton
Mrs. Dashwood - Janet McTeer
Edward Ferrars - Dan Stevens
Willoughby - Dominic Cooper
Colonel Brandon - David Morrissey
Sir John Middleton - Mark Williams
John Dashwood - Mark Gatiss
Eliza - Caroline Hayes
Doctor - Christopher Beery
Henry Dashwood - Simon Williams
Fanny Dashwood - Clarie Skinner
Little Henry - Morgan Overton
Martha - Wendy Albiston
Lady Middleton - Rosanna Lavelle
Mrs. Jennings - Linda Bassett
Jenkins - Campbell Graham
Thomas - Roy Holder
Charlotte Palmer - Tabitha Wady
Mr. Palmer - Tim McMullan
Miss Steele - Daisy Haggard
Lucy Steele - Anna Madfley
Foot - David Glover
Robert Ferrars - Leo Bill
Duel Doctor - Ray Gardner
Second - Robert Forknall
Referee - Steev Cornwall
Dashwood's Footman - David Charles
Mrs. Ferrars - Jean Marsh
Servant - Johanna Hargreaves
Maid at Cleveland - Oriane Messina
Mr. Harris - Damien Thomas
Kandukondain Kandukondain (I Have Found It) (2000)
Studio/Network: Kalyani Infotech Production & 'V' Creations
Producer: Kalaippuli S. Thanu
Director: Rajiv Menon
Screenplay by: Rajiv Menon
Soundtrack: Not Available
DVD: Available
VHS: Available
Run Time: 2 hrs. 30 mins.
Cast (
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Meenakshi (Marianne) - Aishwarya Rai
Sowmlya (Elinor) - Tabu
Manohar (Edward) - Ajith
Srikanth (Willoughby) - Abbas Manivannan
Major Bala (Colonel Brandon) - Mammootty
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Studio/Network: Columbia Pictures & Mirage
Producer: Lindsay Doran
Director: Ang Lee
Screenplay by: Emma Thompson
Soundtrack: Available
DVD: Available
VHS: Available
Run Time: 2 hrs. 15 mins.
Cast (
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Elinor Dashwood - Emma Thompson
Marianne Dashwood - Kate Winslet
Edward Ferrars - Hugh Grant
Colonel Brandon - Alan Rickman
John Willoughby - Greg Wise
Mrs. Dashwood - Gemma Jones
Mr. Dashwood - Tom Wilkinson
John Dashwood - James Fleet
Sir John Middleton - Robert Hardy
Fanny Dashwood - Harriet Walter
Mr. Palmer - Hugh Laurie
Mrs. Jennings - Elizabeth Spriggs
Charlotte Palmer - Imelda Staunton
Lucy Steele - Imogen Stubbs
Margaret Dashwood - Emilie François
Thomas - Ian Brimble
Betsy - Isabelle Amyes
Curate - Alexander John
Pigeon - Allan Mitchell
Maid to Mrs. Jennings - Josephine Gradwell
Robert Ferrars - Richard Lumsden
Miss Grey - Ione Vidahl
Doctor Harris - Oliver Ford Davies
Eleanor McCready - Mrs. Bunting
Sense and Sensibility (1980)
Studio/Network: BBC
Producer: Barry Letts
Director: Rodney Bennett
Screenplay by: Alexander Baron
Soundtrack: Not Available
DVD: Available
VHS: Available
Run Time: 2 hrs. 54 mins.
Cast (
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Elinor Dashwood - Irene Richards
Marianne Dashwood - Tracey Childs
Edward Ferrars - Bosco Hogan
Colonel Brandon - Robert Swann
Mrs. Dashwood - Diana Fairfax
John Willoughby - Peter Woodward
Sir John Middleton - Donald Douglas
Mrs. Jennings - Annie Leon
John Dashwood - Peter Gale
Fanny Dashwood - Amanda Boxer
Lucy Steele - Julia Chambers
Mrs. Wallis - Elizabeth Benson
Lady Middleton - Marjorie Bland
Robert Ferrars - Philip Bowen
Mr. Palmer - Christopher Brown
Anne Steele - Pippa Sparkes
Charlotte Palmer - Henrieta Baynes
Mrs. Ferrars - Margot Van der Burgh
Clay - William Lawford
Mr. Harris - Raymond Mason
Tom - John Owens
Susan - Gina Rowe
Mr. Ingall - John Woodnutt
For Your Consideration...
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Director Ang Lee called this visually-artistic film "Sense and Sensibility with martial arts." There are echoes of Jane Austen's novel in the parallel stories of an older heroine, who lets her head lead her heart, and a younger heroine whose sensibility overcomes her sense, but one suspects the Miss Dashwoods could not wield swords with quite that degree of skill.
Further Reading
The Banquet of Desire: A South Indian
Sense and Sensibility, by R. N. Simhan
Appropriating Austen: Localism on the Global Scene, by Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield
How Masculinity Plays: Effects of Musicianship
in the 1995 Film Adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, by Sarah R. Wakefield
"The Amiable Prejudices of a Young [Writer's] Mind": The Problems of Sense and Sensibility, by Joan Ray
What Meets the Eye: Landscape in the Films Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, by Sue
Parrill
Code Word Jane Austen, or How a Chinese Film about Martial Arts Teaches Life Arts, by Joan Ray