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movie title: Emma

release date: August 1996

genre: romantic comedy

rated: 4 out of 5




Emma Woodhouse lives comfortably with her father and thinks she has no need to marry. Instead she likes to play matchmaker with her friends and family. When Harriet Smith arrives in town, Emma makes decides she has to help Harriet make her way into polite society. She also takes it upon herself to find the perfect match for poor Harriet.






Emma has good intentions as a matchmaker, but she is a bit clueless.
After her matchmaking schemes begin to go wrong, she finally realizes that she herself is really in love. Mr. Knightly has been a lifelong friend and she holds him dear to her heart.





This movie version of Jane Austen's novel 'Emma' is my favorite one. It stays pretty true to the book and you can't help but laugh at the predicaments Emma gets herself into. I like the cast and it's a sweet film. Gwyneth Paltrow plays Emma and Jeremy Northam plays Mr. Knightly.

Ewan McGregor plays the charming Frank Churchill.

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

I rode through the rain! I'd - I'd ride through worse than that if I could just hear your voice telling me that I might, at least, have some chance to win you.

Quoted from the book:

"My dearest Emma," said he, "for dearest you will always be, whatever the event of this hour's conversation, my dearest, most beloved Emma—tell me at once. Say 'No,' if it is to be said."—She could really say nothing.—"You are silent," he cried, with great animation; "absolutely silent! at present I ask no more."



Emma was almost ready to sink under the agitation of this moment. The dread of being awakened from the happiest dream, was perhaps the most prominent feeling.



"I cannot make speeches, Emma:"—he soon resumed; and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing.—"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am.—You hear nothing but truth from me.—I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.—Bear with the truths I would tell you now, dearest Emma, as well as you have borne with them. The manner, perhaps, may have as little to recommend them. God knows, I have been a very indifferent lover.—But you understand me.—Yes, you see, you understand my feelings—and will return them if you can. At present, I ask only to hear, once to hear your voice."

If you are looking for a more modern version of Austen's 'Emma', check out the film Clueless.