Persuasion

Persuasion

1995 | 1h 51m | Romance, Drama | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

Anne Elliot breaks off her engagement to Captain Wentworth under family pressure. Years later, with her family in financial ruin, Wentworth unexpectedly returns a wealthy man, forcing Anne to face her choice and the depth of her feelings for him.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Roger Michell

CAST

Amanda Root

Ciarán Hinds

Susan Fleetwood

Corin Redgrave

Fiona Shaw

PRODUCERS

Fiona Finlay

WRITERS

Nick Dear

Jane Austen

Host Intros

01:34
Madeleine Stowe Intro -- Persuasion (1995)
Intro Aired: Jun 2016
Guest host Madeleine Stowe introduces Persuasion, 1995.

Related Videos

02:54
Persuasion (1995) -- (Movie Clip) Not Very Gallant
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On the evening their son was badly injured, sister Anne (Amanda Root) was baby-sitter for his socially ambitious parents (Sophie Thompson, Simon Russell Beale), unwilling to miss dinner with Captain Wentworth (Ciaran Hinds), and unaware of her own history with him, when he appears the next day, in Persuasion, 1995.
03:46
Persuasion (1995) -- (Movie Clip) Stick Always To Your Purpose
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Complex family tensions crossing Jane Austens English countryside, the Elliot sisters, Louisa, Henrietta, married Mary and stoical Anne (Emma Roberts, Victoria Hamilton, Sophie Thompson, Amanda Root) with eligible Wentworth (Ciaran Hinds) and harried Charles (Simon Russel Beale), in Persuasion, 1995.
03:58
Persuasion (1995) -- (Movie Clip) You Must Retrench
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Director Roger Michell cuts between events opening his adaptation of Jane Austens last novel, the end of the Napoleonic wars for Admiral Croft (John Woodvine), and Sir Walter (Corin Redgrave) being advised (finally by Susan Fleetwood as Lady Russell) to rent out his estate, in Persuasion, 1995.
03:56
Persuasion (1995) -- (Movie Clip) I Care Little For These Romantics
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Unmarried Anne (Amanda Root) preparing her impoverished familys estate for rental, with friend Lady Russell (Susan Fleetwood), who persuaded her years before not to marry a young officer related to the family thats moving-in, in Persuasion, 1995, from the Jane Austen novel.
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Persuasion (1995) -- (Movie Clip) We Must Be In A Good Situation
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Romping Jane Austen comedy in director Roger Michells adaptation of her last novel, heroine Anne (Amanda Root), with the family into-which her sister Mary (Sophie Thompson) married, Simon Russell Beale, Roger Hammond, Judy Cornwall, Victoria Hamilton and Emma Roberts contributing, in Persuasion, 1995.
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Persuasion - (Original Trailer)
Trailer
After turning down a previous marriage proposal years earlier, a young woman is thrown into company with her former beau in Persuasion (1995) based on the Jane Austen novel.

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