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The Age of Innocence
Why this pick
Its exquisitely restrained romance turns social etiquette into emotional pressure, with period detail and glancing looks carrying the ache of choices made too late.
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MOVIE1995 1h 44m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Based on Jane Austen's novel, Persuasion is set in England in 1814. Eight years before the story begins, Anne Elliott was in love with, and engaged to, a young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she allowed herself to be persuaded by her trusted friend Lady Russell to break off the engagement due to Wentworth's lack of position or fortune....
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ciarán Hinds
Captain Frederick Wentworth
Susan Fleetwood
Lady Russell
Samuel West
Mr. Elliot
Felicity Dean
Mrs. Clay
Richard McCabe
Captain Benwick
David Collings
Mr. Shepherd
Darlene Johnson
Lady Dairympie
Sally George
Mrs. Harville