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Emma/エマ [DVD]

Format: DVD
4.4 out of 5 stars 1,889 ratings
Format DVD-Video
Language English
Number of discs 1

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  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm; 90 g
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD-Video
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Japanese
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006OQ0G8A
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer reviews:
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Customers find this adaptation of Emma delightful and beautifully acted, with wonderful colors and lavish costumes. The film captures the humor and irony well, though some find the story too thin to get excited about. While some customers consider it good value for money, others find it disappointing. The audio quality receives criticism for being very poor.

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45 customers mention ‘Enjoyment’45 positive0 negative

Customers find the movie delightful to watch and consider it a classic worth revisiting on DVD.

"...It is close to the novel, and elegantly and delightfully transposed to the screen...." Read more

"...The scene at Box Hill is brilliantly done and is definitely a highlight of the show. The proposal scene with Mr Elton is also hilarious...." Read more

"A good representation of a splendid novel...." Read more

"...Witty and fun. Emma (Wordsworth Classics)" Read more

25 customers mention ‘Acting’22 positive3 negative

Customers praise the acting in this movie, particularly noting the all-star cast and perfect casting choices.

"...Gwyneth Paltrow, who I always like, plays a brilliant character with elegant poise and a perfect english accent...." Read more

"Love this film good actress Good for money as watch quite a bit." Read more

"...The cast make a good effort with the brief script...." Read more

"To watch its great with an all star cast. always have liked Gwyneth Paltrow and don't find her accent odd as some people have said." Read more

12 customers mention ‘Color palette’12 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the movie's color palette and lavish costumes, with one customer noting that the production is not over-glitzy or modernized.

"...It is close to the novel, and elegantly and delightfully transposed to the screen...." Read more

"...Although this is a Hollywood version, with lavish costumes and beautiful settings, it is not over-glitzy or modernized in any way...." Read more

"...Sacchi too young to be Emma's governess - but who cares, it is scenically beautiful...." Read more

"This is a rapid and flashy version of Jane Austen’s last novel...." Read more

9 customers mention ‘Humour’9 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the movie's humor, particularly its wit and irony, and appreciate the good English accents.

"...The story is packed with humour as Emma sets about match-making and meddling in the lives of almost everyone she meets, ultimately resulting in..." Read more

"Handsome, clever, rich... the young Emma seems to have all virtues, together with a disposition of thinking a little too well of herself...." Read more

"...On the whole, I found her English accent to be convincing...." Read more

"Have always liked this film. Gwyneth Paltrow as lead is fab-good English accent too!!!!!!!..." Read more

16 customers mention ‘Story quality’11 positive5 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the movie's story, with some loving it while others find it too thin to get excited about.

"good story, well acted, seems some parts missing from this dvd," Read more

"...came in good time . realize now, after playing other blu-ray products, this is not as good definition as i first thought...." Read more

"...There is no point watching a love story (or a detective story for that matter) unless our anxieties are allowed to grow – will they..." Read more

"...Delighted to have this fave film again, watched it instantly, lovely to see it clearly. Many thanks!" Read more

8 customers mention ‘Value for money’4 positive4 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the movie's value for money, with some finding it good while others consider it disappointing.

"Love this film good actress Good for money as watch quite a bit." Read more

"...Very disappointing." Read more

"Another of our favourite films. Have watched it many time. Price and delivery good." Read more

"...Very disappointing." Read more

5 customers mention ‘Audio quality’0 positive5 negative

Customers report poor audio quality in the movie.

"Could not hear even with the sound up to 30 it did not increase the volume. Very disappointing." Read more

"Sound very poor." Read more

"Enjoyed the acting, already knew the story very well. Sound is atrocious, can barely hear it in spite of volume of television being on 100% maximum...." Read more

"This copy of the dvd is faulty. The sound is so faint that the words cannot be heard satisfactorily even when the volume is turned up to maximum on..." Read more

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  • alex w
    5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely delightful
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2024
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    I had seen this film quite a while ago, so this was a revisit. It is close to the novel, and elegantly and delightfully transposed to the screen. Gwyneth Paltrow is here in one of her best parts, but absolutely outstanding is Jeremy Northam as the ever patient Mr Knightley.
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  • kathy
    5.0 out of 5 stars DVD film
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2024
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    I enjoyed the film happy with my purchase 😊 thank you
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  • Beth Thornton
    4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliantly done, Emma, brilliantly done...........
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 March 2008
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    This a great feel-good film and one which I always reach for when I want some light entertainment and romance. I also love the Kate Beckinsale version and usually I always have a preference for one or other where there are two adaptations of a story to pick from, but in this case they really are on a par. They are individual pieces, both very well made with much to recommend them.

    Although this is a Hollywood version, with lavish costumes and beautiful settings, it is not over-glitzy or modernized in any way. Gwyneth Paltrow, who I always like, plays a brilliant character with elegant poise and a perfect english accent. Emma is the most frivolous and perhaps least easy to like of all Austen's heroines, but she manages to play her in such a way as to make the viewer understand and love her all the same. By the end, she has matured and learnt so much and it is the natural progression for her to realise her feelings for Mr Knightly and marry him.

    The story is packed with humour as Emma sets about match-making and meddling in the lives of almost everyone she meets, ultimately resulting in disaster. The scene at Box Hill is brilliantly done and is definitely a highlight of the show. The proposal scene with Mr Elton is also hilarious. Ewan McGregor is perfect as the dashing but roguish Frank Churchill and Sophie Thompson captures the ridiculous but loveable Miss Bates. Also look out for a fleeting glimpse of Corrie's Richard Hillmann (Brian Capron) as John Knightly.
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Emma
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 January 2014
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    A good representation of a splendid novel. One could quibble about the characters: Greta Sacchi too young to be Emma's governess - but who cares, it is scenically beautiful.
    An excellent version was on TV at Christmas with better casting, I thought. I am after all a bit of a "Janeite".
    Nothing beats the wonderful novel!
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  • emma white
    5.0 out of 5 stars Emma
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 August 2021
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    Love this film good actress
    Good for money as watch quite a bit.
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  • Thomas
    3.0 out of 5 stars Light, flashy fun
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2004
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    This is a rapid and flashy version of Jane Austen’s last novel. If you want vast Regency houses in the kind of weather which always remembers the season – the kind of weather that only exists in fiction - and if you want to follow the lives and loves of beautiful, prosperous people who all live happily ever after then look no further.
    I don’t mean any of this as a criticism but it is hard not to feel short changed. In 116 minutes almost every turn of the novel's plot is at least touched on but I couldn’t help wishing that a little more time had been allowed to provide some suspense. It seems like no time at all between Emma’s first disastrous foray into match-making and the happy ending. Jane Fairfax’s impending doom to live the life of a governess is briefly raised and then happily resolved. Poor old Frank Churchill (an under used Ewan MacGregor) diappears entirely once his engagement is announced. There is no point watching a love story (or a detective story for that matter) unless our anxieties are allowed to grow – will they won’t they? – and for that we need time.
    Emma is a novel of locations but in this version there is little or no sense of place. A clever opening sequence explaining the different houses is wasted as it looks like all the scenes take place in or against the same book-lined, candle-lit, sandstone, neo-classical pile. This is a gorgeous production. Rather too gorgeous in fact. Ladies of the period did not let their skins develop the golden tans of Gwyneth Paltrow or Toni Collette for pale skin was a sign of high status. Although the houses are candlelit there is clearly no lack of central heating as Gwyneth and chums parade through a Christmas party in sleeveless dresses.
    The cast make a good effort with the brief script. Emma’s character transformation is brought about so quickly that disbelief does not so much have to be suspended as hanged, drawn and quartered. I dock three stars for that. But I can forgive a film a lot if it looks good so I’ll give one back. The DVD has no extras at all, not even a spurious ‘Making of…’, no, not even a trailer but at the current price of £6.99 that doesn't matter.
    On balance it's OK but I preferred Clueless and I never thought I'd say that.
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  • Katkin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2015
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    I love the books of Jane Austin but was a little sceptical when I saw that Gwyneth Paltrow was playing the main character. Well, what a surprise and total delight! This has become my favourite version of 'Emma' and I thoroughly recommend it.
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  • diodeman
    5.0 out of 5 stars To watch its great with an all star cast
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2018
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    To watch its great with an all star cast. always have liked Gwyneth Paltrow and don't find her accent odd as some people have said.
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  • Debbie
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful cast and movie!
    Reviewed in the United States on 10 February 2025
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    I love this movie! Best version I have ever seen of Emma.
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  • Immortal Beloved
    5.0 out of 5 stars Kaminfeuer, Kuscheldecke und "Emma" gucken = herzerwärmend !!
    Reviewed in Germany on 9 January 2010
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    Ich muss gleich im Vorfeld sagen, dass dies die einzige "Emma"-Verfilmung ist, die ich bislang gesehen habe, daher kann ich keine Vergleiche ziehen.
    Positiv überrascht hat mich das British English von Gwyneth Paltrow. Auch sonst ist sie, wie ich finde, eine gute Wahl für die Rolle der Emma Woodhouse, einer hübschen, klugen aber verwöhnten Vertreterin des Landadels. Jane Austen soll mal in Bezug auf Emma gesagt haben :"Ich werde eine Heldin schaffen, die ausser mir niemand mag." Weit gefehlt, Miss Austen, ich mag sie mindestens genauso gerne. Sie ist nicht vollkommen, verhält sich oft daneben (die Picknick-Szene; autsch!!), spielt Schicksal und mischt sich in die Angelegenheiten anderer ein, in der festen Überzeugung, Gutes zu tun, stiftet jedoch nur Unglück. Dies lässt sie sehr menschlich erscheinen, Emma ist keine Superheldin, was ihr fehlt ist die Selbsterkenntnis.

    Lobenswert an dieser Austen-Verfilmung fand ich ausserdem, dass die feine Ironie und zum Teil auch Sarkasmus durchkommt, die ja in allen ihren Büchern präsent sind. Oft sind es nur kurze Bemerkungen, Nebensätze, beiläufig geäussert, die einen zum Schmunzeln bringen, und man muss schon richtig zuhören, damit einem nichts entgeht.

    Kritik: wenn ich etwas kritisieren müsste, dann vielleicht die Wahl der Harriet-Darstellerin, die im Buch weder reich, noch intelligent, sondern einfach nur hübsch ist, und im Film leider nicht (bitte nicht falsch verstehen, ich schätze Toni Collette sehr, nur eben nicht in dieser Rolle)

    Diese Adaption ist empfehlenswert für all jene, die gerne für eine Weile den heilen Mikrokosmos der Jane Austen betreten möchten, wo es keinen Krieg oder richtige Tragödien gibt und wo man schon am Anfang weiss, dass man am Ende mit einem "and they lived happily ever after" belohnt wird.
    In diesem Sinne, viel Spass beim Gucken, nicht so viel kritisieren, lieber mitleiden und mitlieben.
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  • Sue
    5.0 out of 5 stars "I love John!" I love this version of Emma!!!
    Reviewed in Canada on 20 March 2023
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    For once a period drama that does not try to make it into a 21st C movie- women should have been.....then. But they weren't.
    I love period drama or comedies as so much attention is given- ( I have ADD and notice the details & continuity lol) and these are splendid. The trees are splendid!

    Emma is acted as a young women who acts as if she were older at any age than we are as their length of life was often much shorter, especially for women in pregnancy, laboyr. It was contractual- title for money and family continuity.

    Our Emma is well educated which was a luxury in the early 1800's , and if not as much of a reader as other heroines in Austin's books, well read. Reading for self was as important as exercise or music, and entertaining .

    At least here we can see how their life was, and how it could've different as it was for Jane Austin herself, who was very observant, well spoken and an avid reader and thinker. No doubt she paid attention to societal differences, and news as well. She could foresee more, clearly.

    The opening is delightful with a lovely but simple twirling decoration, and the story of village lives begins.

    It is remarkable how close they all were. I believe especially if you visit Upper Canada Village (near Iroquois, ON- eastern Ontario) you can see how this would be, yet so hard for us to imagine.

    It's hard to believe that it was so, when in an apartment building where one hardly sees anyone, nor is greeted by anyone.ever.

    Gwyneth Paltrow is perfect if too thin for that era, out-going, generous, a bit snobbish, thoughtful of her actions and so loved that she can recover from her own thoughtlessness with deeper thought, quite quickly. Toni Collette is energetic, enthusiastic but unsure and is the friend who's life Emma directs, with varying results until her friend shines as herself , after experiencing much sorrow and uncertainty.

    Emma does try to make amends which is still hard to do even if her status should make it easier. It is good that she bothers given her status, and that is part of the human connection between two totally divergent times, hers and ours.

    Points are made about true love and acceptance of the other being the point of a happy marriage, unlike the rector who married for money, basically, and has a social climbing, poorly mannered, wealthy wife.

    There is no question that one will be married, have lots of children, and learn the consequences of actions without thought. Charity she gave but not kindness. How valuable for us to consider ourselves.

    The movie has lush pastoral photography, scenery, clothing, furnishings and wonderful styles of carriages and horses. They are magnificent. Never any dirt on them from travelling!

    Even with her warm circle of friends, her very high thinking of herself, Emma can consider her activities, actions and consequences, even if a bit late, as a self-styled village matchmaker.

    As Austin's other books add, life can be very hard especially on reputation and like Dickens, we become aware of society's poverty, the neglected, perceptions, harshness, the need for courage, kindness, forgiveness and true charity regardless of social class.

    Emma at times is funny and all of of the performances fantastic. At the time people were away for far longer given horses, bad roads, freezing bumpy carriages, poor communication and social demands that were very strict.

    I love this movie; I love the gargantuan trees that we just don't have, why I don't know. The buildings are lovely, and it is so much for the eyes and senses. A beautifully constructed movie both light, fun and serious all interwoven amo gst gorgeous roses and spring scenes.

    I watch this to lift me up, lighten the world, which it always does!

    I love Jeremy Northam!
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  • Anna
    5.0 out of 5 stars Uno dei miei preferiti.
    Reviewed in Italy on 4 October 2023
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    Si vede molto bene, è stato difficile trovarlo, ma ne è valsa la pena.
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  • ムーミンママ
    5.0 out of 5 stars エマがとても可愛い
    Reviewed in Japan on 21 May 2020
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    オースティンの長い小説を手際よく映画化されていて楽しみました、
    原作では心の動きが多いのでこの映画だけでは描き切れなかったと思いますが
    これはこれで楽しくきれいな「エマ」になりました。
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