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Article: Emma.
- Article from:
- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- December 1, 1996
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It was a time when the local dance attracted more attention and excitement than the actions of local armies, or so the narrator tells us in the beginning of Douglas McGrath's Emma. Following a wave of Jane Austen revivals, this movie will delight audiences and is a must for anyone who enjoyed Sense and Sensibility or the televised BBC production of Pride and Prejudice.
Television commercials and newspaper ads have generally described Emma as a comedy about Cupid's arrow going astray. This is true, as Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow) tries her hand at matchmaking, often sending Cupid's arrow in the wrong direction or boomeranging it onto herself; but the movie offers much ...