Based on Jane Austin's novel, the wealthy Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving nothing for his second wife and her three daughters. In this left-to-poverty family, the two eldest daughters are the titular...Read more opposites.
Based on Jane Austin's novel, the wealthy Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving nothing for his second wife and her three daughters. In this left-to-poverty family, the two eldest daughters...Read more are the titular opposites.
Director Ang Lee had not read Jane Austen's novel when Columbia first sent him Emma Thompson's...Read more script.
Emma Thompson's first draft of the screenplay consisted of 350 hand-written pages. The final draft...Read more was a culmination of that and 13 other drafts which were written over four and a half years.
During filming, the Jane Austen Society telephoned co-producer James Schamus to complain about the...Read more casting of Hugh Grant claiming that he was too good-looking to play Edward Ferrars.