The UK branch of Sony Pictures will release on Blu-ray acclaimed director Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995), starring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, and James Fleet. The release will be available for purchase online and in shops across the United Kingdom on April 15th.
Emma Thompson stars in and provides the screenplay for this adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel. Thompson plays Elinor, the eldest of sisters who are reduced in means when their father dies and his estate passes on to his son from his first marriage. They are soon accepted into their new society, each finding romance, but with some pain along the way. Also starring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman, the film won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as three BAFTAs.
This is good news. I liked the film, which is saying something, since I don't like Austen's books. Emma Thompson's script pared down the story and kept it from becoming too boring or melodramatic.
