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Name: Persuasion
Released: 1995-9-27
Cast: Fiona Shaw, Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds, John Woodvine, Corin Redgrave

Persuasion

PG
1h 47m
1995

86%

age 10+

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Jane Austen's dramatic novel comes to life in Persuasion, the story of a spinsterish woman who is given a second chance at love. She must combat both her restrictive English Regent society and her own past foibles when a love rejected in her youth reenters her life.

Director:

Roger Michell

Producer:

Fiona Finlay

Writer:

Nick Dear

Cast:

Fiona Shaw , Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds, John Woodvine, Corin Redgrave, Susan Fleetwood

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

86%

Critics Consensus: Well-acted and absorbing, Persuasion offers a loose Jane Austen adaptation that captures the essence of the author's timeless appeal.

Reviews

New Yorker

Richard Brody

A Jane Austen movie that is never pretty and only occasionally charming; instead, it is troubled, astringent, and touched with melancholy-not unlike the novel.

For a film as esteemed as it is, it has always felt overshadowed by its proximity to BBC's beloved production of Pride and Prejudice.

May 26, 2019

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The New York Review of Books

Louis Menand

An extremely intelligent and textured film.

[Persuasion] never lets the superb period detail intrude on the emotional realism or romantic suspense.

Jane Austen love story with an admirable heroine.

February 26, 2018

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Common Sense Media

age 10+

Common Sense Says

Jane Austen love story features an admirable heroine.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Persuasion is a 1995 adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel. This romance is fraught with lies, gossip, and manipulation, but very little in the way of sex or violence. Two people fall and injure themselves seriously: one, a child and the other, a teenage girl. The child falls off-screen and is carried limply back to his home. The teen falls on-screen and appears for a moment to have died. "Damn" is infrequently used, and there's pipe smoking as well as wine drinking. While many kids, particularly younger kids, are likely to find the movie to be too slow, older kids who are just beginning to discover Jane Austen's books and media adaptations are likely to enjoy this story of love finding a way to work out in the end, even if it takes decades.