Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 08/24/2004
Run Time: 174 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: BBC Warner
Ten years before
Jane Austen's novel
Sense and Sensibility was transformed into a lavish theatrical feature by director
Ang Lee, the property was adapted as a rather less lavish but no less entertaining British TV miniseries.
Irene Richard and
Tracy Childs starred as
Elinor and
Marianne Dashwood, two attractive sisters from a prominent British family. When the
Dashwoods go broke after the death of their father, the flighty
Marianne and the more reserved (and, need we add, more intelligent)
Elinor go on an exhaustive search for proper, and properly wealthy, husbands.
Sense and Sensibility was served up in three 60-minute portions by the
BBC.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide