This delightfully fun and lighthearted comedy is based on Jane Austen’s classic novel. Dazzling Gweneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love, Iron Man) shines as Emma- a mischievous young beauty who sets up her single friends. Funny thing is…she’s not very good at it! So when Emma tries to find a man for Harriet, she makes a hilariously tangled mess of everyone’s lives. You’ll enjoy all the comin confusion…until Emma herself falls in love, finally freeing everyone from her outrageously misguided attempts at matchmaking.
Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, James Cosmo, Greta Scacchi, Alan Cumming, Denys Hawthorne.
May be suitable for older children.
Parents need to know that this sweet-natured period film may not have much appeal to tweens and younger. Teens, especially those enamored of Jane Austen’s novels, on which this is based, might find it enormously appealing. It revolves around manners, society, and of course romance. There’s much discussion about matchmaking but no onscreen canoodling. The only language issue is that some of the people circle around what they’re trying to say without actually saying it, which may be confusing. Expect some social drinking; one character blames a social gaffe on having had too much wine. – Common Sense Media