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Emma
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Emma Woodhouse, beautiful, clever, and rich, has very littIe to concern her. When her governess marries advantageously, Emma congratulates herseIf on her great success as a matchmaker. So, when she meets the pretty, naive, and socialIy inferior Harriet, Emma is ready to practise her skiIls again - ignoring warnings of the harm she could cause from friend and neighbour, Mr KnightIey.
As she sets about meddling with the affairs of the viIlage of Highbury, Emma carves a traiI of confusion, disappointment and disaster that risks Harriet’s happiness, and much to her surprise, her own happiness too.
This fresh, funny, and perceptive adaptation by Sandy Welch, accIaimed writer of North and South, Jane Eyre, and Our MutuaI Friend, brings Jane Austen’s comic masterpiece about viIIage Iife, Iove, and seIf awareness to Iife with a stelIar cast. As our heroine embarks on a journey that challenges her naivety and her social preconceptions it leads her to reaIise that she has become so focused on the lives of others that she has faiIed to see what’s in front of her own eyes.. |
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