| | | Lose Your Heart and Come to Your Senses.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Surround Sound, English, Subtitled, Spanish
Emma Thompson stars in and wrote the Oscar-winning script for this wonderful romantic comedy, adapted from Jane Austen's novel and acclaimed nationwide as one of the very best movies of 1995. The story of two high-spirited sisters looking for true love in straitlaced society, Sense & Sensibility serves up humor, romance and the happiest ending of the year!
"A definite must-see..." Elaine Blythe, Film Advisory Board
"Brilliant." Jack Kroll, Newsday
"Funny, expansive, and a delight to spend company with." Bruce Reed, Film.com
"...fetchingly photographed and capably acted by Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant..." David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor
"Poised, delicate, powerful, hovering between poignancy and pealing laughter..." Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail
"...an absorbing, delightful, and nuanced movie." Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle
"...an exuberant, well-crafted film that gets the audience involved on a gut level even before the opening credits are over." Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
"...a vast range of richly developed, gorgeously played characters..." Richard Schickel, Time
Editor's Note
Actress Emma Thompson both wrote and stars in this adaptation of Jane Austen's SENSE AND SENSIBILITY--a novel that perceptively examines the social manners and laws of early-19th-century Britain. Set in the English countryside, the film follows the loves and heartaches of sisters Elinor (Thompson) and Marianne Dashwood (Kate Winslet). The two have extremely divergent approaches to life: Elinor represents "sense" and believes in behaving with propriety and thoughtfulness, while Marianne represents "sensibility" and basks in her own emotions. Both women, however, experience confusion when their lovers, seemingly on the verge of proposing marriage, spurn them. For director Ang Lee, the film marks a break from his Father Knows Best trilogy, which examined the problems of the contemporary Taiwanese family. Many people questioned whether an Asian director could handle an English period film. Lee answered those questions with a gorgeous film that both captures the nuances of Austen's novel and proves that Lee is a first-rate director capable of tackling any material. Featuring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman, among others, the stellar cast inspired Lee to flatteringly exclaim, "Can everyone in England act?"
Plot Summary
Director Ang Lee and screenwriter-actress Emma Thompson bring Jane Austen's 1811 novel about the romantic dalliances of two sisters in rural England to the screen in this acclaimed film.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo; Spanish, Portuguese | | Deleted Scenes | | Director Ang Lee And Co-Producer James Schamus' Audio Commentary | | Emma Thompson & Producer Lindsay Doran's Audio Commentary | | Emma Thompson's Golden Globe Acceptance Speech | | Limited Edition Classic Book And DVD Collection | | Production Notes | | Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 4/22/2008 |
| Running Time: 136 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1995 | | Catalog ID: 07718 | | UPC: 00043396077188 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, Portuguese Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Chinese | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1996) | | | Emma Thompson, Nominee, Best Actress | | | Kate Winslet, Nominee, Best Supporting Actress |  | Emma Thompson, Winner, Best Writing, Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium | |
Golden Globe (1996) | | Emma Thompson, Winner, Best Screenplay | |
British Academy Awards (1996) | | Emma Thompson, Winner, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | |
Golden Globe (1996) | | Emma Thompson, Winner, Best Screenplay - Motion Picture | |
Oscar (1996) | | | Emma Thompson, Nominee, Best Actress in a Leading Role | | | Kate Winslet, Nominee, Best Actress in a Supporting Role | |
Screen Actors Guild (1996) | | Kate Winslet, Winner, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role | |
British Academy Awards (1996) | | Kate Winslet, Winner, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role | |
Oscar (1996) | | | Lindsay Doran, Nominee, Best Picture | |
British Academy Awards (1996) | | Lindsay Doran, Ang Lee, Winner, Best Film | |
Oscar (1996) | | | Michael Coulter, Nominee, Best Cinematography | | | Patrick Doyle, Nominee, Best Music, Original Dramatic Score | |
Golden Globe (1996) | | Sense and Sensibility, Winner, Best Motion Picture - Drama |
| Memorable Quotes| "Love is not love/ Which alters when it alteration finds/ Or bends with the remover to remove:/ O, no! it is an ever--fixed mark/ That looks on tempests and is never shaken."----Marianne Dashwood (Kate Winslet) quoting Shakespeare's "Sonnet 116" | | "Piracy is our only option."----Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant) to Elinor Dashwood (Emma Thompson) | | "Is love a fancy or a feeling? Or a Ferrars?"----Marianne to Elinor |
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| | Professional Reviews | Premiere
"...Inspired....Wickedly irreverent sense of visual comedy..." 12/01/1995 pp.35-6Rolling Stone
"...A terrifically entertaining and incisively acted film of Jane Austen's first novel....Thompson gives a marvelous performance to match the elegant fire of her writing..." 12/28/1995 p.139 Sight and Sound
"...Enjoyable..." 03/01/1996 p.50-1 Entertainment Weekly
"...Lushly engaging....Luminously brings to life Austen's vision..." -- Rating: B 01/19/1996 p.40 Variety
"...Witty and rollicking....Rickman is unexpectedly moving....Jones quietly impresses....Francois is utterly winning..." 12/04/1995 Los Angeles Times
"...Proof to any doubters of the resilience and continuing emotional power of an author who began writing 200 years ago..." 12/13/1995 p.F1 Sneak Previews 9 of 10
4 stars. A gorgeous and glorious triumph. Wonderfully witty, stunningly beautiful, and richly satisf - Michael Medved
Rolling Stone 9 of 10
One of the 10 best pictures of the year. Georgous filmmaking. A terrifically entertaining and incisi - Peter Travers
Washington Post 9 of 10
Rapturous romance...laugh out loud funny...elegantly staged and masterfully acted. - Rita Kempley
ReelViews 9 of 10
It's a curious thing that the best 1995 adaptation of a Jane Austen book happens to be of her worst novel. Sense and Sensibility was the author's first published work and, as is often the case with early writing efforts, displays an undeniable shallowness: themes are half-developed, characterization is uneven, and plotting follows a predictable straight-forwardness. Austen's later books, including Persuasion, which was developed into a wonderfully sumptuous film earlier this year, and Emma, which received unusual treatment in Clueless, plumb the human soul far more deeply, creating characters and situations of greater versatility and vitality...The novel's flaws guarantee that Sense and Sensibility cannot be a perfect motion picture, but it would be difficult, I think, to do much better with the material than Emma Thompson and director Ang Lee (Eat Drink Man Woman) have here. With more Jane Austen on the way (versions of Pride and Prejudice and Emma), it's still too early to say which adaptation will stand out as the best, but Sense and Sensibility makes a strong case. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
"Sense and Sensibility" is an enjoyable film, and yet it left me somehow unsatisfied. I liked the wit, I liked the charm of the actors, I enjoyed the way that Rickman chewed his role as if he wanted to make it last, and the tension when Grant's Edward is made to suffer - particularly since he appears to be a cad only because he has tried to do the right thing. And I appreciated the way Thompson's Elinor kept her character's face carefully expressionless as she negotiated scenes in which some knew her secrets and others did not...Yet the film is not told as tightly or as well as "Persuasion," the wonderful Austen adaptation released earlier in 1995. Austen was not yet a great novelist when she wrote this story, and there is too much contrivance in the way she dispatches her men to London when she is done with them. Edward is offscreen so long that instead of growing concerned about his absence, we forget him...The production suffers from comparison with "Persuasion" because the earlier film looked simpler and more authentic, and this one seems a little too idealized; we want note paper, not picture postcards. "Sense and Sensibility" is entertaining and amusing, but "Persuasion" is the one true Jane Austen lovers will prefer. - Roger Ebert
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