A MIRAMAX Film

Directed by Douglas McGrath

Screenplay by Douglas McGrath

after the novel by Jane Austen

Musical Score by Rachel Portman (Oscar Winner 1997)

Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma Woodhouse

Jeremy Northam as Mr. Knightley

Toni Collette as Harriet Smith

Greta Scacchi as Mrs. Weston

Ewan McGregor as Frank Churchill

Polly Walker as Ms. Fairfax

Alan Cumming as Rev. Elton

Juliet Stevenson as Mrs. Elton

" I loved the character immediately although there were days I really disliked her too for the ruthless way she´s determined to help - no matter the cost to the person she´s helping. "

" My character has watched Emma grow up from afar and so he´s able to watch her blunderings with some amusement. "

" She´s more flawed than any heroine deserves to be. She has so much leisure time on her hands that she can´t resist meddling in other people´s love lives even though she doesn´t really know what she´s doing half the time. "

" If you can imagine someone who has never been on a horse attempting to teach someone else to ride , then you have Emma in a nutshell. As a matchmaker , she´s a disaster because she hasn´t even realised it. "

Emma has got so little clue about life and lovers that she can´t even see she´s in love herself until it´s almost too late. But that´s part of what makes her so endearing and so real.

Personal Note :

On my trip through London I saw advertisements every day when I went to take the subway-trains. One poster showed the lovely face of Gwyneth Paltrow who I first recognized playing Brad Pitt´s wife in Se7en. I knew only little about Jane Austen´s novels at that time (I just watched Sense & Sensibility before). As I´m a fan of costume-films , I often thought of this flick when I came home.

Almost 7 long months later "Emma" appeared on our screens , but only in small theaters , because nobody seemed to give the film any chance. But "Emma" became a hot tip and stayed for months.

I desperately wanted some friends to join me seeing this movie , even the girls seemed not in the least interested. This made me really sad.

Some days later I told my mom that I wanted to go to this movie. I don´t know why , but I gave her an article about "Emma" to read. She fell in love with the story about the unsuccessful matchmaker and longed to see the film with that nice actress. So I took her with me and I´m very glad about this decision. She said it was one of her most favourite movies of all time. Afterwards mom read the book I rented for her and listened to the soundtrack by Rachel Portman.

Now that "Emma" is gone , I become often surprised by listening to people discussing the film. Everybody seems to like it , and there were more people to see it than I thought.

I think , dear reader , you need to see it too ! It is a marvellous romantic comedy with lots of great actors ! You won´t be disappointed !

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Page created in early spring 1998, after having seen EMMA up to ten times (in german and english), and listening to the great soundtrack uncountably often. Thank you for your visit !