I happened to stumble upon this adaptation and now I wonder how many others I may have missed in the years since my Jane Austen fixation!
At this point, I'm afraid I can't remember many details from the book anymore, so I can't do my usual book-to-screen comparison.
I'll just say, I very much enjoyed this movie's humor and light-heartedness, as well as the elaborate costuming and gorgeous, beautifully-colored sets - and pastries! It was a lot of fun to watch. The servants especially were surprisingly comical.
Emma was well-cast, but Mr. Knightley being light-haired threw me off, I just always imagine him to be dark-haired. I really liked the casting of Harriet; she was simpler and lower class than Emma but not made out to be frumpy. Meanwhile, Frank Churchill came across kind of sleazy, I wasn't too fond of him, and the Jane Fairfax character was not fleshed out enough (which I know is harder to do in movie adaptations than in mini-series).
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