Emma Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Douglas McGrath
Genres: Comedy, Romance
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Based on the novel by Jane Austen (who in the '90s seemed to be in the running alongside William Shakespeare and Stephen_King for the honors of most adapted author in Hollywood), this period romantic comedy stars Gwyneth_Paltrow as Emma Woodhouse, a young woman who imagines herself an authority on matters of the heart. With the best of intentions, Emma plays matchmaker for her friends, most notably her friend Harriet (Toni_Collette), who Emma links up with the Reverend Elton (Alan_Cumming), and her governess, (Greta_Scacchi), who she introduces to her future husband, Mr. Weston (James_Cosmo). However, Emma is not nearly as good at playing Cupid as she likes to imagine, and she spends so much time trying to solve everyone else's romantic problems that it takes her quite some time to realize that she's fallen in love with Mr. Knightly (Jeremy_Northam). A television miniseries based on Austen's book appeared a year later, while a year prior to Emma, the story appeared in modernized form in the popular teen comedy Clueless. Mark Deming, Rovi
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