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

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Cast:
Elizabeth Garvie - Elizabeth Bennet
David Rintoul - Mr. Darcy
Natalie Ogle - Lydia Bennet
Sabina Franklyn - Jane Bennet
Tessa Peake-Jones - Mary Bennet
Malcolm Rennie - Mr. Collins
Edward Arthur - Mr. Hurst
Osmund Bullock - Mr. Bingley
Peter Howell - Sir William Lucas
Andrew Johns - Captain Denny
Michael Lees - Mr. Gardiner
Peter Settelen - Mr. Wickham

Production:
Cyril Coke - Director
Jonathan Powell - Producer
Fay Weldon - Screen Writer
Jane Austen - Book Author
Paul Wheeler - Cinematographer

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