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| Sense And Sensibility (BBC) [1981] | ![Sense And Sensibility (BBC) [1981]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pOTJ5PpBL._SL160_.jpg)
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Actors: Tracey Childs, Irene Richard
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Format: Colour, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Pal, Subtitled
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), Catalan (Original Language)
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 Overlooked TV Classic September 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the 1981 BBC adaption made just after the 1980 Pride and Prejudice with Irene Richard as Elinor having been Charlotte Lucas in Pride and Prejudice. It comes as six half hour episodes on a single DVD. Picture and sound are both very good but not outstanding.br /br /It's a pretty good adaption that covers more of the plot than the feature film vesrion. Irene Richard is an outwardly calm, inwardly tormented Elinor. Its unfair to call her cold just because modern taste wants more outward passion. It's there alright just concealed and the actress suggests it admirably. Tracey Childs as Marianne is excellent as a teenager looking for love but finding the first choice is often the wrong one.br /br /The latest TV adaption is pretty good too but different in tone and more "realistic" pictorially.br /
Very faithful to the book! April 15, 2008
This was a very pleasant, enjoyable adaptation, and it was refreshing that it was faithful to the book. I thought the characters much more believeable than those in the film version. The only thing that bothered me was at the end Colonel Brandon recommended books to Marianne that were straight out of Northanger Abbey! I don't think Marianne's character lends her to enjoying something like Mysteries of Udolpho! Perhaps the programme makers got the stories mixed up or something????????
 cringeworthy January 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I didnt think i would find any adaptation of my favorite novel unwatchable and boring but this is. It makes the other adaptations look even better. Im sorry i wasted time trying to watch this.
Like a theatre play, but lovely all the same July 4, 2006
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
I have read all the pervious amazon reviews about BBC's SS miniseries, but they were mixed, so I did not know what to expect from the production as a whole. However, I was most pleasantly surprised, for I found it lovely.br /br /There's no denying it that compared to the outstanding Emma Thompson movie the miniseries seems much more sedate and restrained -with less passion grande and display of tormented feelings-, it's like a theatre play really, but somehow it did not diminish it in my eyes. Given the length it was more leisurely, more faithful to the plot of the book.br /br /I found the cast excellent: Irene Richard as Elinor and Tracey Childs as Marianne played their parts excellently. Diana Fairfax was a warm-hearted and ladylike Mrs Dashwood, Amanda Boxer was an excellent Fanny Dashwood: so cold-hearted, sneering and mean-spirited that you just wanted to slap her in the face really hard whenever she appeared on scene. Peter Gayle as John Dashwood also acted his part as the mean but jovial husband totally under his wife's influence. Peter Woodward (Willoughby) was dashing, Bosco Hogan (Edward) and Robert Swann (colonel Brandon) as the sisters suitors I found endearing. The Steele sisters were vulgar and shrewd, Mrs Jennings was vulgar, but kind-hearted. Characterization was superb through and through. br /br /There were reviewers who found Irene R's Elinor too cold, but I did not have that feeling - it was rather that the scenes focusing on her feelings were just too short, we were not given the chance to see her suffer. br /br /There is one thing however that disturbed me very much - the very sudden and abrupt ending. I couldn't help feeling cheated of the happy ending. Before I could start to enjoy the fact that all will turn out well, cut ... and over. This is why I don't give it 5 stars.br /br /If you take my advice, try and enjoy this production for its own merits without comparing it to the movie - because they are two different worlds.
Good adaptation May 19, 2006
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
Having just finished watching Mansfield Park adaptation of BBC, this one came as a suprise being much better. It is divided into 7 episodes that last about 25 minutes each and I watched them all in one sitting. br /br /There is one thing in common with all older BBC adaptations and that is the actors playing the characters are not very good-looking. Here Elinor and Edward do not look like what you would call "stars" like Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant but I think it is ok, people don't have to be very beautiful to love and be loved. Marianne is quite beautiful and Willoughby is dashing.br /br /It's been a while since I have read the novel so I don't exactly know it this is a "faithful" adaptation but it gave me that feeling. This one does not so much look like a play although it is not like a film either. But you get the feeling that it wasn't shot directly on sets. br /br /The actors are good but I am not sure Jane Austen intended Elinor so calm and contained. She looked emotionless for most of the film but she wasnt't that bad. Marianne is very romantic and I must say she sounds like Helga from "Hey Arnold" when she gushes about love but she is a likable character. Sir John, Mrs. Jennings and Lucy Steele are very good but I found Fanny Dashwoods performance a bit over the top, especially in the scene she learns about her brother's engagement. br /br /The costumes and places are good enough for a lower budget production and all in all this is quite a good production but it may not be for people who expect glossier productions like the big screen adaptations and the 1995 PP miniseries.
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