Pride and Prejudice

This is the first and the best Colin Firth film. Based, of course, on the Jane Austen novel, it's your basic romance novel but with lovely Brit accents and sentences that are deliciously complex. Plot: girl meets boy, girl hates boy, boy proposes marriage to girl, girl utterly rejects boy, girl discovers the errors of her ways. The film isn't really based on the novel; it IS the novel. I had no trouble watching the film after reading the book. They do add some lines that make the proposal scene all that more yummy. All the characters from the novel are acted pitch-perfectly in the film, especially the mother (who will tend to grate on your nerves), but Colin Firth takes the cake. Is there another actor around who simply by staring at the screen can evoke longing, desire, willpower, ache and sadness? He needs a new agent. What a Girl Wants? Ack. He's so much better than the fluff he's been choosing, Bridget Jones's Diary notwithstanding.

year: 1995
length: 327 min. (6-part mini-series)
rating: 3.5
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112130/combined