Pride And Pre-Production

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that movies based on the works of Jane Austen, are big business. Her romantic tales have enough potential for smart laughs, female empowerment and snogging in the rain to make any Hollywood studio exec lunge for his Cliffs Notes. There have been a lot of takes on the canon of the nineteenth century novelist. Some are good, like Emma update Clueless. Some are useless, like Jim Abraham