There’s nothing wrong with updating classic novels, but everything’s wrong with this movie.
Persuasion
’s story hews fairly closely to that of the novel. Eight years after Anne broke off their engagement because her family disapproved of her marrying a man of lesser social status, Captain Frederick Wentworth has returned from a successful campaign in the Napoleonic Wars, now wealthy, still single, and desirable yet remote in the way only a Jane Austen love object can be. Unfortunately, as played by Cosmo Jarvis, Wentworth is also something of a lifeless sad sack.
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