a someone who have read the book and i can say that this be vastly inferior to the big american version star gwyneth paltrow . there be various reason for this . firstly and emma be too unpleasant . yes and she have fault and and isn not the easy person to like but the viewer shouldn not downright start to despise her . secondly and mr knightly be miscast . his brooding and melancholy in this version be well suit to a bronte or gaskell adaptation than austen and and throw the mood of the whole affair off . thirdly and samantha morton be too strong an actress to be relegate to the role of harriet while and why be she make to look so sickly . harriet be suppose to be blonde and bloom not to look a if she go to be carry off by consumption in the next scene . fourthly and the structure have be muck up and scene cut . at the end and when emma decide she love mr knightly and it come across a utterly baffling because this narrative hasn not be adequately show and carry along throughout the film . fifthly and what be go on and exactly and with mrs elton accent . she go from sound like an american actress try to suppress her own accent at the beginning and to all out american half way through and and then back to english at the end . finally and this drag at the end . the book and the big film version end with the wedding of emma and mr knightly . this version drag on confusingly after the announcement of the wedding without actually show u the ceremony . all in all and a rather haphazard attempt . read the book or rent the paltrow version instead .