Utah-based filmmaker Andrew Black makes his feature debut with Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy. The screenplay is an adaptation of the original Jane Austen novel, updated to reflect the contemporary dating situation among Mormons at Brigham Young University. Kam Heskin plays Elizabeth, an independent student who repeatedly rejects the advances of suave Jack Wickham (Henry Maguire). She lives with four roommates: best friend Jane (Lucila Solá), nerdy gal Mary (Rainy Kerwin), and the marriage-obsessed sisters Lydia ...
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Utah-based filmmaker Andrew Black makes his feature debut with Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy. The screenplay is an adaptation of the original Jane Austen novel, updated to reflect the contemporary dating situation among Mormons at Brigham Young University. Kam Heskin plays Elizabeth, an independent student who repeatedly rejects the advances of suave Jack Wickham (Henry Maguire). She lives with four roommates: best friend Jane (Lucila Solá), nerdy gal Mary (Rainy Kerwin), and the marriage-obsessed sisters Lydia (Kelly Stables) and Kitty (Nicole Hamilton). Jane starts dating the wealthy Charles Bingley (Ben Gourley), who brings around his British friend Darcy (Orlando Seale). At first, Elizabeth thinks Darcy is overly pompous, but he grows quite fond of her headstrong intelligence. Meanwhile, Charles' evil sister Caroline (Kara Holden) competes for Darcy's affections. Pride & Prejudice opened in a limited number of Salt Lake City-area theaters in December 2003. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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Hubbel Palmer, Kara Holden, Rainy Kerwin, Amber Hamilton Russo, Kelly Stables, Henry Maguire, Benjamin Gourley, Lucila Solá,... New. 2004 Run time: 104. 100% of this purchase will support literacy programs through a nonprofit organization!
This version of Pride and Prejudice is set in a Mormon college - a convenient device to explain why people don't have sex! The film is no masterpiece (it gets just 5.4 on IMDB), but it's watchable. Mr Collins is as obnoxious - perhaps more obnoxious - than he is in the book, while making Elizabeth a would be novelist (and Darcy a publisher) does have a sort of resonance.
At the end it descends into an even broader farce than the earlier sections. Lydia running away with Wickham to marry in Vegas is a nice idea as an updating but the (almost) marriage scene is too silly for words ....
If you are going to watch Pride & Prejudice, I'd suggest Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in the film of the BBC mini-series. And I'm pleased to see IMDB agrees with me.
