While matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.While matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.While matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.
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- 3 wins & 7 nominations total
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- TriviaToni Collette had to gain weight to portray "the Rubenesque Harriet" and she explained, "I think it's important for people to look real in films. There's a tendency to go Barbie doll and I don't agree with that at all."
- GoofsFrank Churchill's hair changes length in the scenes when he says goodbye to Emma - shorter when he arrives and longer when he leaves.
- Quotes
Mr. Knightley: Emma, how could you be so unfeeling to Miss Bates? How can you be so insolent to a woman of her age and situation? I had not thought it possible.
Emma: How could I help saying it? I daresay she did not understand me.
Mr. Knightley: I assure you, she felt your full meaning. She cannot stop mentioning it. I wish you could have heard her honour your forbearance in putting up with her when her society is so irksome.
Emma: I know there is no better creature in all the world, but you must allow that blended alongside the good, there is an equal amount of the ridiculous in her.
Mr. Knightley: Were she prosperous or a woman equal to you in situation, I would not quarrel with you about any liberties of manner. But she is poor, even more so than when she was born. And should she live to be an old lady, she will sink further still. Her situation being in every way below you should secure your compassion! Badly done, Emma. Badly done. She has watched you grow from a time when her notice of you was an honour to this, humbling her, laughing at her in front of people who would be guided by your treatment of her. It is not pleasant for me to say these things, but I must tell you the truth while I can, proving myself your friend by the most faithful counsel, trusting that sometime you will do my faith in you greater justice that you do it now.
- Crazy creditsThanks to ... the people of Evershot.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: Chain Reaction/Matilda/Emma/Stonewall (1996)
- SoundtracksDeck the Halls with Boughs of Holly
Traditional tune, lyrics by Thomas Oliphant (uncredited)
Arranged by Rachel Portman
The cinematography is inventive, crossing at times the border to gimmickry, but it certainly avoids the trap of making this look like a boring TV soap in costumes, given that the entire story is dialogue-driven.
The acting is competent. Ms Paltrow is aloof, as her character requires, but the required distance from the other characters is accompanied by a much less appropriate detachment from her own actions. In other words, she does not seem to care enough of the results of her match-making endeavours. Some of the supporting cast is guilty of over-acting - very much in the style that is appreciated on stage but out of place in motion pictures. Personally, I had problems accepting Alan Cumming as Mr Elton - to no fault of his own, except for having left such an impression as a gay trolley-dolly in "The High Life" that it is now difficult to accept him playing any serious part. Acting honours go to Toni Collette who manages to radiate warmth, and Jeremy Northam who pitches his character at just the right level.
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- Countries of origin
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- Language
- Also known as
- Емма
- Filming locations
- Evershot, Dorset, England, UK(Highbury village)
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Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $22,231,658
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $240,649
- Aug 4, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $22,231,658
- Runtime2 hours
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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