Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen drama, starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet

An impoverished family is taken in by a relative - and while sensible elder daughter Elinor's love for the sensitive Edward Ferrars meets with disapproval from his family, her more passionate younger sister Marianne engages in a disastrous romance with an infamous womaniser. Period drama based on Jane Austen's novel, directed by Ang Lee, and starring Emma Thompson (who also wrote the screenplay), Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant