when i first saw this film in cinema 11 year ago and i love it . i still think the directing and cinematography be excellent and a be the music . but it really the script that have over the time start to bother me more and more . i find emma thompson write self absorbed and unfaithful to the original book while she have reduce marianne to a side character and a second fiddle to her much too old and much too severe elinor she in the movie be give many sort of focus moment and and often they appear to be there just to show off thompson herself . i do understand her cut off several character from the book and but leave out the one scene where willoughby in the book be redeem . for someone who red and cherish the book long before the movie and those be the thing always difficult to digest . a for the actor and i love kate winslet a marianne . she be not give the best script in the world to work with but she still pull it up gracefully and without too much sentimentality . alan rickman be great and a bit old perhaps and but he play the role beautifully . and elizabeth spriggs and she be absolutely fantastic a always .