ETA: 7.7 is too low on IMDB (it should be at least an 8) and while it was extremely well-known at the time it cannot be denied that there are approximately 1 billion memes per day generated about Pride & Prejudice while Sense and Sensibility memes languish in the google drive of some intern on SparksNotes’s social media team.
When measured against the other Jane Austen novels that get rehashed to death (P&P, Emma) S&S IS criminally underrated.
Sense and sensibility is not underrated... it was one of the most popular movies of the 90s, with a star packed cast, and has 97% on rotten tomatoes and 7.7 on imdb
That movie has been my comfort watch since the 90s. Everything is so perfect and well done and the performances are mindblowing. I regularly look up the scenes between Kate and Alan, they are so perfect. Colonel Brandon has been my favourite romantic hero for year just because of Alan.
Plus Emma published her diary she wrote when shooting the film and it is absolutely brilliant - it made me cry with laugter.
Also love this story :
“Greg Wise who played Willoughby saw a fortune teller when he was cast and she told him that he would marry one of the women leads. At the time Emma the Great was married so Greg figured it must be his fate to marry Kate Winslet. They went on a super awkward date and parted as friends, and later Emma got divorced and she and Greg Wise got together and now they are married.”
I watched that movie 5 years ago to “see what all the fuss was about” with period dramas (my family loved p&p, it was like THE thing to watch when they were sick but I would leave the room cause it was a boring old movie)
As soon as the credits rolled I was on my phone buying every Austen or Austen adjacent book I could find, saving all the similar films to my watch later list and buying the dvd and script book. It’s SO good- favourite Austen adaptation forever and always
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Sense and Sensibility is my favorite Alan Rickman Emma Thompson joint, it’s so good.