The film describes a year in the life of Emma Woodhouse, a congenial but naïve young woman who thinks of herself as a romantic matchmaker in her small community in early-19th-century England. When her governess, Miss Taylor, gets married and goes to live with her new husband, Mr Weston, Emma proudly takes the credit for having brought the couple together. Her father and their old family friend (and brother of Emma's sister's husband) George Knightley dispute her claim and disapprove of her trying to make more matches, but she ignores their warnings and sets her mind on setting up Mr Elton, the minister who performed the Westons' marriage ceremony, with Harriet Smith, an unsophisticated young woman on the verges of society.
MPAA Rating: | PG |
Genre: | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
Country: | United Kingdom, United States |
Produced By: | Steven Haft, Patrick Cassavetti, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Donna Gigliotti, Donna Grey |
Directed By: | Douglas McGrath |
Written By: | Douglas McGrath, Jane Austen |
Cast: | Brian Capron, Edward Woodall, Greta Scacchi, Karen Westwood, Jeremy Northam, Toni Collette, James Cosmo, John Franklyn-Robbins, Rebecca Craig, Brett Miley, Sophie Thompson, Paul Williamson, Angela Down, Ewan McGregor, Alan Cumming, Polly Walker, Kathleen Byron, Lee Boardman, Phyllida Law, Juliet Stevenson, Ruth Jones, Denys Hawthorne, Gwyneth Paltrow |
In Theaters: | Aug 30, 1996 |
Runtime: | 2 hours |
Production: | Miramax Films, Matchmaker Films , Haft Entertainment |
Budget: | $6,000,000 |
Box Office: | $22,201,883 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Netflix, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |