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Overview Jane Austen's perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. The Bennets Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their means but well short of rich, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are looking for suitable husbands for their girls, and they are encouraged to learn that an eligible young bachelor from a wealthy family, Charles Bingley Simon Woods, has moved into a nearby estate. Eager to see if a match can be made, the Bennets bring their daughters Elizabeth Keira Knightley and Jane Rosamund Pike to a ball thrown by their new neighbor to see if sparks will fly. Jane seems to like Charles, and he appears to feel the same, but Elizabeth takes an immediate dislike to Darcy Matthew MacFadyen, Charles' egocentric best friend.