Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 08/24/2004
Run Time: 265 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: BBC Warner
Fay Weldon wrote the teleplay for this 5-part
BBC TV adaptation of
Jane Austen's 1812 novel
Pride and Prejudice. Class-obsessed Mrs. Bennett (
Priscilla Morgan) is dead set upon marrying off her five daughters to wealthy and influential young men. Headstrong Elizabeth Bennett (
Elizabeth Garvie), the family's second daughter, resists her mother's plan. She is the "pride" that is "prejudiced" against snobbery and pomposity. Elizabeth is particularly incensed by the vain, aristocratic Fitzwilliam Darcy (
David Rintoul)--at least until she realizes that Darcy is as prejudiced against high-toned class distinctions as she is. Telecast in the US on
PBS'
Masterpiece Theatre in the fall of 1980,
Pride and Prejudice was later released to video in an uninterrupted, 226-minute single serving.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide