SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

GENRE:  Drama/ Romance
MADE:  1995
CAST:  Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Hugh Grant
DIRECTOR:  Ang Lee
WRITER:  Jane Austen, Emma Thompson

PLOT:  Based on Jane Austen's novel, Sense and Sensibility, Mr Dashwood dies leaving his wife and her two daughters poor making their marriageability most impossible.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Vanity Fair, Pride & Prejudice, Brokeback Mountain

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LOVE ACTUALLY

GENRE:  Comedy/ Drama/ Romance
MADE:  2003
CAST:  Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson
DIRECTOR:  Richard Curtis
WRITER:  Richard Curtis

PLOT:  Following the relationship and lives of eight couples focusing on the subject of love.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Bridget Jones's Diary, About A Boy, Sliding Doors, Notting Hill

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STRANGER THAN FICTION

GENRE:  Comedy/ Romance/ Drama
MADE:  2006
CAST:  Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman
DIRECTOR:  Marc Forster
WRITER:  Zach Helm

PLOT:  An IRS agent, hated by many, single, boring and running on a schedule... the same schedule every day wakes up one day to find that he can hear a mysterious voice narrating his life.  At first he believes himself to be crazy but finds quickly that he is a character in a book that someone is writing, the bad news?  He, Harold Click dies at the end of the story.  With the knowledge of his upcoming fate his life is turned upside down as he tries to find the author to stop the ending from being written during which... he falls in love with a woman least likely to love him back.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Groundhog Day, The Science Of Sleep, Stay

 

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