The Readers Digest version of Pride and Prejudice

Rating: 5/10 (18 September 2005)

If you want to see the distilled version of Pride and Prejudice then get along to this one. I understand that containing the book to a 2 hour film might require some cutting of minor characters but they might as well have also left Mr Wickham out of the whole film for all the screen time he is given! He is such a central character and yet he is barely on screen before he has decamped to Brighton. Any newcomers to Austen might not realise that there was any great flirtation between Eliza and Wickham to warrant such a defense of his character to Darcy during the proposal scene. It all seemed too rushed and the language to butchered that you wonder why they bothered to compete against the Jennifer Ehle/ Colin Firth mini series adaptation.