Sense and Sensibility
Lose your heart and come to your senses.
Lose your heart and come to your senses.
Drama, Romance
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1995
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The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
Director:
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Ang Lee
Cast:
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Details
Runtime:
136 min
Release date:
13 Dec 1995
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$16,000,000
Revenue:
$134,582,776
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. 33 wins & 50 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Thompson's script manages the neat trick of preserving the necessary niceties and decorum of civilized behavior of the time while still cutting to the dramatic quick.
– Todd McCarthy,
Variety,
30 Jan 2009
fresh:
I can't say I remembered this 1995 feature too clearly a couple of days later; but I certainly had a good time as I watched it.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
9 Feb 2007
fresh:
Thompson and Winslet give fine performances ably supported by the rest of the ensemble.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
We need no further proof that this material is ageless.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
21 May 2003
fresh:
The sensibility may be a bit off, but there is more than enough sense involved in this mid-Atlantic Austen to make up the difference.
– Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Feb 2001