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Rating: 5/10 (25 November 2005)

Reimagined as a chick flick for today's romance-starved independent women, this paean to the days when marriage was both a means of financial security and the only sanctioned way to get your freak on bursts with fecundity and virility. A naughty shot of a well-endowed hog sets the lusty tone; the disquiet of adolescent hormones pulses through every frame. Dame Judi Dench is the only showstopper in terms of acting, but the other performances are serviceable. Keira Knightley looks most beautiful and sympathetic in repose; she already has a few too many tics for such a young thespian, but that makes no nevermind when you've been anointed as the Next Big British Thing. The lush cinematography serves as a travelogue for the great houses (and champion trees) of Britain.