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Director Roger Michell
Screenplay Nick Dear

Persuasion

Tagline: A love lost, but never forgotten in this new BBC dramatization

Release Date: 1995-05-01

Duration: 107 minutes

Synopsis

Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family estate to Admiral Croft, and Anne is again thrown into company with Frederick -- who is now rich, successful, and perhaps still in love with Anne.

Casting

  • Ciarán Hinds
    Captain Frederick Wentworth
  • Fiona Shaw
    Mrs. Croft
  • Samuel West
    Mr. Elliot
  • Sophie Thompson
    Mary Musgrave
  • Victoria Hamilton
    Henrietta Musgrove
  • Amanda Root
    Anne Elliott
  • Simon Russell Beale
    Charles Musgrove
  • Judy Cornwell
    Mrs. Musgrove
  • Susan Fleetwood
    Lady Russell
  • Corin Redgrave
    Sir Walter Eliot