Critique: Sense and Sensibility

The movie Sense and Sensibility, based off the Jane Austin novel of the same name, is a love story of two very different sisters. When Mr. Dashwood dies, he leaves behind a wife and two daughters without an inheritance because they were women and it was ilegal for them to have an inheritance. They moved into a cottage owned by their cousin Sir John (Robert Hardy). Marianne (Kate Winslet) falls in love with Mr. WIlloughby (Greg Wise), who is unable to return her love because he was to marry for money. Elinor, her sister, falls in love with Edward Ferrars, who had already pledged his lov…