Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility (2024)

Studio/Network:  Hallmark Channel
Director:  Roger Bobb
Screenplay:  Tim Huddleston

Cast
Elinor Dashwood:  Deborah Ayorinde
Marianne Dashwood:  Bethany Antonia
Edward Ferrars:  Dan Jeannotte
Colonel Brandon:  Akil Largie
John Willoughby:  Victor Hugo
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Scents and Sensibility (2011)

Studio/Network:  SunWorld Pictures
Director:  Brian Brough
Screenplay:  Brittany Wiscombe and Jennifer Brough

Cast 
Elinor Dashwood:  Ashley Williams
Marianne Dashwood:  Marla Sokoloff
Brandon Hurst:  Nick Zano
Edward Farris:  Brad Johnson
John Willoughby:  Jason Celava
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From Prada to Nada (2011)

Studio/Network:  Lionsgate
Director:  Angel Gracia
Screenplay:  Fina Torres, Luis Alfaro, and Craig Fernandez

Cast
Nora Dominguez:  Camilla Belle
Mary Dominguez:  Alexa Vega
Bruno:  Wilmer Valderrama
Edward Ferris:  Nicholas D’Agosto
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Sense and Sensibility (2008)

Studio/Network:  BBC Drama co-production with WGBH Boston
Director:  John Alexander
Screenplay:  Andrew Davies

Cast 
Elinor Dashwood:  Hattie Morahan
Marianne Dashwood:  Charity Wakefield
Edward Ferrars:  Dan Stevens
Willoughby:  Dominic Cooper
Colonel Brandon:  David Morrissey
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Kandukondain Kandukondain (I Have Found It) (2000)

Studio/Network:  Kalyani Infotech Production & 'V' Creations
Director:  Rajiv Menon
Screenplay:  Rajiv Menon

Cast
Meenakshi (Marianne):  Aishwarya Rai
Sowmlya (Elinor):  Tabu
Manohar (Edward):  Ajith Srikanth
(Willoughby):  Abbas Manivannan
Major Bala (Colonel Brandon):  Mammootty
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Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Studio/Network:  Columbia Pictures & Mirage
Director:  Ang Lee
Screenplay:  Emma Thompson
Soundtrack:  Available

Cast
Elinor Dashwood:  Emma Thompson
Marianne Dashwood:  Kate Winslet
Edward Ferrars:  Hugh Grant
Colonel Brandon:  Alan Rickman
John Willoughby:  Greg Wise
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Sense and Sensibility (1980)

Studio/Network:  BBC
Director:  Rodney Bennett
Screenplay:  Alexander Baron

Cast 
Elinor Dashwood:  Irene Richards
Marianne Dashwood:  Tracey Childs
Edward Ferrars:  Bosco Hogan
Colonel Brandon:  Robert Swann
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Sense and Sensibility (1971)

Studio/Network:  BBC
Director:  David Giles
Screenplay:  Denis Constanduros

Cast
Elinor Dashwood:  Joanna David
Marianne Dashwood:  Ciaran Madden
Edward Ferrars:  Robin Ellis
Colonel Brandon:  Richard Owens
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For Your Consideration...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Director Ang Lee called this visually-artistic film “Sense and Sensibility with martial arts.” There are echoes of Jane Austen’s novel in the parallel stories of an older heroine, who lets her head lead her heart, and a younger heroine whose sensibility overcomes her sense, but one suspects the Miss Dashwoods could not wield swords with quite that degree of skill.

Further Reading

• Multiple Authors: The Making of Sense & Sensibility (BBC, 2007), by David Monaghan.

• The Green World, Cultivated: Jane Austen’s Engagement with Shakespeare’s As You Like It in Sense and Sensibility, by Lesley Peterson.

• From Prada to Nada: Displaced Dashwood Sisters in Los Angeles, by Alice Marie Villaseñor.

• The Immortality of Sense and Sensibility: Margaret’s Tree House, Edward’s Handkerchief, Marianne’s Rescue, by Susan Allen Ford.
• Plots and “Dark Subplots” in Sense and Sensibility: Adapting and Interpreting Jane Austen’s Duels, by Joanna Thaler
• From Page to Screen: Emma Thompson’s Film Adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, by Nora Foster Stovel
• Sororadelphia, or “even the conjugal tie is beneath the fraternal”, by James Thompson
• The “Story” of Fanny Dashwood, by Harriet Walter
• A Thoroughly Elinor Sort of Way: Elinor’s Sensibility in Masterpiece’s Sense and Sensibility, by Daniel R. Mangiavellano
• Colonel Brandon: Hero in a Flannel Waistcoat, by Mary E. Chiapetta, first place student essay
• The Banquet of Desire: A South Indian Sense and Sensibility, by R. N. Simhan
• Appropriating Austen: Localism on the Global Scene, by Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield
• How Masculinity Plays: Effects of Musicianship in the 1995 Film Adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, by Sarah R. Wakefield
• “The Amiable Prejudices of a Young [Writer’s] Mind”: The Problems of Sense and Sensibility, by Joan Ray
• Code Word Jane Austen, or How a Chinese Film about Martial Arts Teaches Life Arts, by Joan Ray
• What Meets the Eye: Landscape in the Films Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, by Sue Parrill
• Jane Austen “Responds” to the Men’s Movement, by Devoney Looser
• Mass Marketing Jane Austen: Men, Women, and Courtship in Two of the Recent Films, by Deborah Kaplan
• Austen Novels and Austen Films: Incompatible Worlds?, by Patrice Hannon