WOW!by Ericactdcj

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September 22, 2009: This movie was great. I've watched Pride and Prejudice but this one is my favorite! An ordinary girl ends up in her favorite book, living the life in the old days. She knows all the charactors in the book and she knows what happens but since she got there..things have gone differently. This was a great movie and I will add it to my DVD collection soon.

Jane Austen is snickering from her graveby kal999

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August 17, 2009: I saw this mini series on the Ovation channel.

This deeply silly and delightful adaptation of Price and Prejudice takes the original story and then, gradually turns it on its ear, while managing to remain true to it.

Amanda, a bored young resident of 21st century Hammersmith, finds Elizabeth Bennet standing in the bathroom of her apartment one day. They decide to trade places, Elizabeth staying in 2008, while Amanda visits Longbourn, the day that Netherfield is let to Mr. Bingley. Immediately everything begins to go horribly wrong, and Amanda exerts a great deal of misdirected effort trying to keep the plot of the novel on track, with hilarious results.

Clearly Guy Andrews, who wrote Lost in Austen, knows well the details of Pride and Prejudice and loves it enough to gently add his own twisted little quirks to it.

I laughed my butt off the entire way through it.