PG
Starring Ashley Williams, Marla Sokoloff, Nick Zano, Brad Johnson,
Directed by Brian Brough
The Story:
Elinor (Williams) and Marianne (Sokoloff) Dashwood's world upends when their father goes to jail and they must get real jobs to make ends meet and take care of their family. Elinor ends up as a janitor and Marianne changes her last name to land a job as a copy editor. While they try and make enough, naturally they run across a couple of men (Zano and Johnson) who are both irritating and attractive, at the same time. However, when Marianne's scented lotions that she makes on the side look to be profitable and get the girls out of debt, evil forces conspire to rob them of their chance to regain their status as upstanding citizens. Whatever will the girls do?
This is what you get when you take 2 parts Jane Austen and one part Lifetime channel and shake vigorously.
That said, it's not bad. There are numerous Sense and Sensibility adaptations out there for your perusal.
This one is a fun re-imagining of the story, set in the modern day
It looks like a TV movie and feels like one, but that's fine.
Sometimes a good TV movie is exactly what you can be in the mood for.
Enough romance, drama and comedy to make it a light, fun affair without holding strict to the coattails of Jane Austen.
Available to stream instantly on Netflix as of this writing.
Final Grade: C+
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: No need to buy it, but cute and harmless enough, could watch it again for background noise when you don't need to totally concentrate on a film.
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