Pride and Prejudice (2003)

• Year: 2003
• Released: 05 Dec 2003
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366920/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pride_and_prejudice
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/pride-and-prejudice
• Available in: 720p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Runtime: 104 min
• Writer: Jane Austen, Anne K. Black, Katherine Brim
• Director: Andrew Black
• Cast: Kam Heskin, Orlando Seale, Lucila Solá
• Keywords: based on novel or book, college, utah, marriage, writer, mormon,

5.0/10

Pride and Prejudice Storyline

Elizabeth Bennet is a hard-working, intelligent college student who won’t even think about marriage until she graduates. But when she meets Jack Wickham, a good-looking playboy, and Darcy, a sensible businessman, Elizabeth’s determination is put to the test. Will she see through their exteriors and discover their true intentions? Based on Jane Austen’s timeless tale Pride and Prejudice, Bestboy Pictures presents a comedy about love, life and feminine persuasion.—Anonymous

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A child’s understanding of Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is not just a clever romance. It contains strong criticism against a society that punished women for their intelligence, created an upper class for whom working for a living was disgraceful, and operated through social interactions that could make true, intimate friendship difficult. The novel depicts intense pressure on young women to marry, and marry early– and shows how such marriages can end in tragedy. This movie, however, is almost completely free of serious criticism of Mormon society. Instead, it is full of silly characters doing silly things, wearing foolish outfits and lobbing objects at each other in case you didn’t understand that it was supposed to be a comedy. Apparently the pressure to marry that young Mormons feel is really kind of a hoot.

Painful modern-day version of Pride and Prejudice

I know that many people consider Clueless a brilliant modern-day version of Emma, but in my opinion, it never rises above being an average teenage comedy. Pride and Prejudice, despite the source material, suffers the same fate–it is virtually indistinguishable from dozens of other teenage comedies (except of course, for the fact that the characters being Mormon). This version is silly and rather dull, nothing witty or clever about it. And can someone explain the reason why in every single teenage comedy, does the rather ditsy female character need to get constantly hit in the head with a ball (in this movie, Kitty is hit in the head with a tennis ball, basketball, football and I believe a few others things)? Perhaps it was funny the first time it was done, but it is extremely tiresome and extremely unfunny.

The acting was mediocre at best, terrible at worst. Kam Haskin is okay as Elizabeth, but doesn’t have much of the original character’s wittiness or strength. Orlando Seale as Darcy at first is great–he’s arrogant, cold and insulting, the perfect Darcy. But the minute Darcy declares his feelings for Elizabeth, he turns into an overeager lovesick puppy (At one point, when Wickham and Lydia have eloped and Darcy finds them, Darcy and Wickham get into a fight. They are on the ground pummeling each other, and when Elizabeth and the others walk in, Darcy stops and smiles lovingly at Elizabeth!!). There are some characters missing from this version. As they have made the girls into college roommates rather than sisters, there are no Bennett parents. Lady Catherine de Bourgh is also gone. Charlotte Lucas only makes one very brief appearance. One change they made which actually sat well with me was concerning Collins and Mary. With all their awkward obsequious nerdiness, the two characters are perfect for each other, and I never liked Charlotte marrying Collins. In this version, it is Mary and Collins who get together, and I prefer it that way.

I really did want to like this version. I lived in Provo for a while, and that was about the only entertaining thing for me–seeing all of the old places I used to visit. However, the script was poor, the acting was poor, and it just isn’t worth seeing. In my opinion, if you want a fun modern-day version of this story, check out Bride and Prejudice–it’s much better done.

Very watchable, but could have been better

If you’re attracted to the P&P story line and are entertained by the idea of the plot working itself out in different cultural contexts, then this is the movie for you. The context here is the LDS or “Mormon” culture of Utah. Like “Clueless,” the movie’s strength comes from recycling the plot of one of Austen’s classic novels. As it is, it’s fun, though rough around the edges.

P&P poses some real challenges when you transport it to a modern setting, since a lot of the things that mattered to women in the Regency period just don’t matter any more. By placing the story in the LDS context, the producers subjected the women to a culture with a few crucial similarities. I know very little about the LDS culture, but the film suggests that LDS women *want* to get married and the men expect them to be virgins. This gives the story its foundation.

This is clearly a low budget production. It shows in some of the technical aspects and in the acting, but the actors are at least competent. There’s lots of gentle humor, but the movie lacks the sharp wit that is Austen’s trademark.