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The opening scene involves a fireside seduction, while the sight of the dashing Edward Ferrars (Dan Stevens) chopping wood in the rain helped give him a pin-up reputation he has since diversified with darker, more offbeat roles (see Legion, Gaslit) . Writer-director Amy Heckerling (Look Who's Talking) cleverly utilises the world of the upscale American teen of the time - slang and all - in her update of Austen's classic, with Alicia's airhead 'Betty' playing matchmaker to her friends, unaware that her own big romance is right under her nose. Coming from debut feature film director Carrie Cracknell (a big figure in UK theatre), it stars Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades) as Anne Elliot and Cosmo Jarvis (Shogun) as Frederick Wentworth, the man her family forces her to give up.
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