SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Red-125 Persuasion (2007 TV Movie) is a BBC production directed by Adrian Shergold. Sally Hawkins plays Anne Elliott. (Yes, the same actor that we saw ten years later in The Shape of Water.) Eight years before the novel begins, Anne was in love with a young British naval officer--Frederick Wentworth portrayed by Rupert Penry-Jones.At the time, Anne was persuaded to reject Wentworth, because her father is a baronet and he was a penniless young man. Now he has returned as Captain Wentworth. He's rich because of booty won in the Napoleonic Wars. However, Anne and her family have fallen on hard times, because her father insists that, as a noble, he has to spend his money freely. The question raised by Austen is whether Anne can regain Wentworth's love.This is a 90-minute movie, not a miniseries. Naturally, the plot is pared down to its basics. However, this version definitely worked for me.The lead actors were superb, the supporting cast was excellent, and production values were high. We saw the film on DVD. It would surely work better on the large screen, because of the beautiful British scenery and the glorious costumes.This film has an excellent IMDb rating of 7.6. If you're a Jane Austen fan, you've probably seen it already. If you haven't seen it, it's a must. Even if you don't particularly like Jane Austen, I still highly recommend this movie. It's a gem--don't miss it.

iloveUGA123 I ended up watching this version before I watched the 1995 BBC version, and I loved it! I enjoyed it so much that later I decided to finally watch the BBC version. I did enjoy it, and they were both very similar, it's just that the actors for this version were much, much more attractive than those on the 1995 version. I actually thought that the acting was better in this version, and I enjoyed it much more! I love what the movie is about, and how after they finally see each other 8 or 9 years later, you can still tell that they are head over heels for each other! You could tell that Captain Wentworth was still very hurt by Anne, but that he still loved her so much, and just didn't want to show that he did because he was so hurt by her. Captain Wentworth's plan did work, because Anne was very jealous and sad whenever he was around Henrietta or Louisa, and acted like he really liked them. It looked to me like she tried to make it seem as if she didn't really care at times, but you know that she really does. I would highly recommend watching this movie because I know that you would enjoy it if you like these kind of movies!

Zen-2-Zen I'm sure that staunch lovers of the "good old" but actually stale Austen will protest a lot, but this direction and screenplay achieved rather unimaginable thing. They brought entirely new life to stale and terribly clichéd Austen. If this was a full feature production (instead of TV) it would have been an Oscar worthy achievement.I started watching this pro-forma, just to see yet another Austen adaptation and be able to say "I saw it". Little did I know what kind of good surprise was awaiting around the corner.Screenplay is judiciously tight and direction is quite modern and dynamic, occasionally reaching the mastery one would expect from a director on the level of Christopher Nolan rather than a TV production. One notable aspect of the modern direction is the use of physical acting and even revolving camera for the finale to make the lead character come out as a live person with juices flowing.The sole aspect in which this film still wasn't able to break away is casting. It succumbed to the pressure of traditional English "plain is good" casting style which might have been OK 50 years ago but is a poison pill for a moder production, depriving it of the top talent available.

LuciaPilson This adaptation is absolutely dreadful. Anne Elliott is not beautiful, glamorous or spoiled She is intelligent, resourceful and a tower of quiet strength. In this version she is a quivering, stammering bowl of Jello. She shows backbone only twice, when little Charles is injured and when Louisa falls. Otherwise she stands about looking deathly pale and shrinking into the woodwork and being thoroughly insipid. Why in world someone like Frederick Wentworth would be interested is such a flat, dull, boring creature is a mystery. Never mind carrying a torch for eight years. Other characters were equally dreadful. Charles Musgrove is a tedious individual, interested only in guns and shooting. This man would never notice his wife's hypochondria. If you don't know the story, you can't appreciate the importance of Mrs. Cole, William Elliot, James Benwick and even Lady Russell. The casting also left much to be desired. Frederick's sister, Mrs. Croft is old enough to be his mother. Forcing one self to make it to the end of a film is much the same as trying to swallow a mouth full of dreadful medicine. Although in the case of the medicine one does it as presumably it will ease one's suffering. At the end of this I felt much the worse for having watched it.