Has there been any film on the novel Pride and prejudice?

Answer 1

Yes, and it stars Keira Knightley!

Answer 2

The most recent (2005) starred Kiera Knightley and was completely untrue to Jane Austen's style, think P&P meets Wuthering Heights. The BBC miniseries (1995) starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth is the best of the adapations I've seen, though it is around 6 hours, it is also the most accurate. The BBC did a previous version in 1980 starrind Elizabeth Garvie which is ok, though the production values aren't quite what we're used to now. The one starring Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier (1940) is a classic, though there were some plot changes.
There are also a number of modern versions including Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) with Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth - funny and leaves you with a smile, Bride & Prejudice (2004) starring the beautiful Aishwarya Rai as well as Lost's Naveen Andrews - a Bollywood version, very funny though you have to appreciate musical numbers, and the seriously unwatchable Pride and Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy (2003) which is a Mormon production that I watched despite having been warned and regretted.

Answer 3

There was a 1940 Hollywood production with Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier (both rather over-age for Austin's characters), well-scripted by another leading British author who had gone Hollywood, Aldous Huxley, and with a setting that was a cleaned up vision of early Victorian England, more like the earlier 1935 version of Dickens's David Copperfield than the late 18th century/turn of the 19th century Napoleonic wars setting of Austin's novel.

I've seen a couple of other full-length Pride and Prejudice films, but I believe that these were made for television (I think in the 1990s and early 2000s). For some reason, maybe Huxley's script, and despite its ahistoricity, the older version, with its light humorous touch, is still my favorite and my wife's.

Answer 4

Yes. A total of 9 movies were made based on this classic; the first one in 1938 was made for television, then in 1940, 1967, 2003, 1958, 1952, 1980 and 1995 seven more were made based on this novel. Probably the most well-known one, however, was the 2005 adaptation of it starring Keira Knightley which was nominated for four Oscars.

Answer 5

Lots! The most recent one was with Kiera Knightley. There's also a BBC version from a few years ago that is really well done, but kind of long. Many people don't realize this, but Bridget Jones's Diary is actually a modernization of Pride and Prejudice.

Answer 6

The two that I am familiar with are the BBC version (Colin Firth is quite good looking, even with those sideburns, and quite the gentleman, too) and the recent version with Keira Knightley. I like both versions and actually watched the BBC version two weeks ago.

Answer 7

There is also the Bollywood version "Bride and Prejudice" which is really recommendable, if you like movies where the actors suddenly start singing and everybody is in on the choreography.
http://www.amazon.com/Bride-Prejudice-Naveen-Andrews/dp/B00094AS9U/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-9651962-2035955?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1173104295&sr=1-1