Pride & Prejudice

The film that would become one of the more durable adaptations of Jane Austen's novel arrives in cinemas on September 16, 2005, produced by StudioCanal, Working Title Films, and Scion Films. It is a drama and romance set among the landed English gentry of the Georgian era, following the Bennet family of Hertfordshire — a gentleman, his wife, and their five daughters — as they navigate the particular anxiety of entailment: upon Mr. Bennet's death, the family estate passes not to his children but to a distant male cousin, leaving the daughters' futures contingent almost entirely on whom they marry. Read more…