Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Miramax Lionsgate (2011), Edition: No enhanced packaging
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification.
User reviews
LibraryThing member LisaMaria_C
This didn't make me laugh as hard as the Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice or make me cry like Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility--but I do love it and it is fun. Paltrow is a fine comedic actress and this has some fine not-so-comedic moments. Such as when Emma humiliates this poor women and Mr
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Knightly upbraids her for it--a small moment, but also a turning point in humbling Emma. It's all so nicely done--and is the kind of film that bears rewatching--in a DVD that's important. Show Less
LibraryThing member datrappert
Somehow Paltrow manages to pull off pretty much whatever she does, and this is no exception. I have no intrinsic reason to want to like this film, but I can't help it. The story of matchmaking Emma is not quite so serious as some of Austen's other works, and this is a very enjoyable film.
LibraryThing member 2wonderY
Jeremy Northam has the prettiest eyes! This is an absolute winner at catching Austen's spirit and intent. Bravo!
Subjects
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
7.5 inches
UPC
031398137399
Local notes
IMDb - Internet Movie Database - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116191/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1