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Release Date
• USA: Feb 11, 2005
• UK: 8 Oct 2004
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jul 5, 2005
• R2: 14 Mar 2005
Budget USD 7,000,000
BoxOffice: $0.4M
Official Website:
Bride & Prejudice Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for some sexual references.
Running Time
1 hour, 50 minutes
Country UK, USA
Studio Bend It Films, Bride Productions, Inside Track, Kintop Pictures, Nayar Chadha, Pathe Pictures, U.K. Film Council
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Bride & Prejudice (2004)
• Bride and Prejudice
• Bride and Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical
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Genre: Romance, Comedy, Musical, Love, Culture Clash, Marriage
Tagline: Bollywood meets Hollywood... And it's a perfect match
Plot: From director Gurinder Chadha and the team that created “Bend It Like Beckham” comes a classic romance not just retold, but reinvented in a new globally connected world. BRIDE AND PREJUDICE puts an entirely different spin on Jane Austen’s story of spirited courtship - Bollywood-style. Music, dance and spectacle merge with love, vanity and social pressures, as Chadha transports the comic tale of a witty young woman trying to find a suitable husband to a cross-cultural setting that spans 21st century India, London and America. It all begins in a modest Indian village when the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find marriage matches for her four beautiful daughters while there’s a lavish wedding party in town. Right away, the smart and headstrong Lalita (Aishwarya Rai) announces she will only marry for love, giving her mother nightmares. Then Lalita meets the wealthy American Will Darcy (Martin Henderson) and sparks immediately fly. But is it love or hate? Darcy comes off to Lalita as an arrogant California snob. Lalita looks to Darcy like a small-town Indian beauty who knows nothing of the world.Alternately enchanted by and suspicious of one another, Lalita and Darcy nearly fall prey to assumptions, gossip and a comedy of errors . . . until pride is humbled and prejudice
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The premise might have looked dubious on paper, but it works brilliantly on the screen...The colorful costumes light up the screen, and the musical numbers, while not standouts, are catchy and well-placed...has a sense of humor about the inclusion of musical numbers in Bollywood productions.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Bride & Prejudice is a fits-and-starts sort of film that does seem to find its groove once in a while, but never can maintain it for very long.  --Vince Leo (Qwipster.net)
Elegantly embroidered saris and elephants may add color and scale, but the spice is missing from this classic courtship tale.  --Susan Tavernetti
...it's enjoyable, colourful, exuberant and ultimately a surprisingly faithful adaptation of a near perfect book. 65/100--Scott Andrews
Bride And Prejudice is a bright, splashy, and very smart film infused with wit and warmth.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
...Bride and Prejudice does try awfully hard to be fun. I feel bad about slamming it as a mess... 64/100--Brian Webster (Apollo Guide)
Energetic, colourful, enjoyable and well-acted film that is only let down by its disappointing songs.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
Bride and Prejudice is entertaining enough. It has lavish spectacular moments, lots of local colour, gorgeous settings, beautiful actresses, and some terrible songs.But what’s the point of it? Bridget Jones’ Diary took the bare bones of the story and made it fresh. 5/10--Michelle Thomas
It’s certainly colorful, and in watching it one can almost feel the enthusiasm of the filmmakers...But it’s also amateurish, with acting that’s often so flat that it seems almost cruel to emblazon it across a big screen. C---Frank Swietek
I think the best way to sum up this film is to paraphrase 1920’s Hollywood publicity; on top of the visual feast, it’s “all singing, all dancing, all talkie, all fun!” If you see any film in 2005, see this one. 9/10--Tony Medley
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Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Emma | |
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 | Alexis Bledel
Sin City, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Tuck Everlasting |
 | Marsha Mason
2 Days in the Valley, Nick of Time, Heartbreak Ridge |
 | Ashanti
Coach Carter, The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, MTV Video Music Awards 2003 |
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| Craig Pruess
Bend It Like Beckham, What's Cooking?, Bhaji on the Beach |
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| The style is visually stunning and the romance is sweet and innocent. How refreshing! B+ --Rebecca Murray
...most of the jokes do work, and most of the characters are quite likable. --Jay Seaver (eFilmCritic.com)
The film is worth seeing just for their exuberance, whimsy and occasional silliness. If the movie were always as footloose and creative as it is during those moments, it would be brilliant, rather than pedestrian. B---Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
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