Pride and Prejudice
1995 | Drama | UK | Created by Andrew Davies, from Jane Austen
Overview
Jane Austen 1813 novel with Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth and Colin Firth as Darcy, six episodes of the BBC at full sail. The lake scene made Firth a national treasure and the damp shirt a museum piece. Emmy and Bafta wins, then the 1990s costume drama boom followed. It is a truth universally acknowledged: the miniseries as romance engineering.
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