Sense and Sensibility

Lose your heart and come to your senses.

Sense and Sensibility — Plot

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.

• Release date
• December 13, 1995
• Runtime
• 136 min
• Genres
• Drama, Romance
• Director
• Ang Lee

Sense and Sensibility — Cast

Emma Thompson Elinor Dashwood Kate Winslet Marianne Dashwood Alan Rickman Colonel Christopher Brandon Hugh Grant Edward Ferrars Gemma Jones Mrs. Dashwood Greg Wise John Willoughby Elizabeth Spriggs Mrs. Jennings Imogen Stubbs Lucy Steele