The Best Pride and Prejudice
This is one of the few book to movie productions I have seen that have actually got it right. Because it was a miniseries, they were able to put everything that was in Jane Austen's book into this film. Colin Firth is the best Mr. Darcy I have seen in a film. He gets the character so well, and was able to portray it truthfuly. All of the other actors did a great job too, and the locations in which everything was filmed was perfect. It is worth watching this over and over.

I love it!
I love this adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I never liked Colin Firth before I saw this 5 hour miniseries, but now I love him, too. He played Mr. Darcy to perfection. Jennifer Ehle is very good also, as Elizabeth. I love that the screenplay stays very close to the book, both in dialogue and sequence of events. Not the case in all Pride and Prejudice adaptations. It doesn't feel 5 hours long. I've watched it more than once in the same day. A little extreme, I suppose, but I do love it that much. Not to take away from the Keira Knightley feature film at all, which is also very beautifully done and well acted, but this is the quintessential adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

always a classic
colin firth is in his finest form in this classic tale of presumption, misunderstanding, and, finally, love. loved every minute of it.

The longest of Pride and Prejudice on film
The bBC A&E production is the longest and most lavish of the Pride and Prejudice films I have viewed. It fleshes out Darcey's character, which is helpful. The production is accurate in its recreation of dances, songs, etc., as well as being precise in its details in showing the contrast between the Bennetts and Bingley's higher society companions. The actress Jennifer Ehle (Elizabeth) brings a sweet and fun quality yet she appears much too old to believe that Lizzie is "not yet 1 and 20". Though Ehle was 24 at the time of filming, she is a very mature 24 and would have suited playing a much older character, someone in her thirties. Colin Firth displays the right combination of emotions and you delightfully follow the subtle yet apparent changes to his behavior and character.

The biggest criticism of the production is the overall too mature ages of the main characters as well as a lack of distinction of accents between the classes of characters. Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Darcey would NEVER have spoken the same accented English!

The best Pride and Prejudice adaptation to date!
I have received my copy of the 10th Anniversary Collector's set and I think the colors are just perfect. Not washed out at all. Maybe they have fixed it since the special edition.

Colin Firth is the best Darcy and Jennifer Ehle is the best Elizabeth Bennet. Whenever I read P&P I always picture the cast of this wonderful mini series in mind. Superb acting and production! I can never praise them enough.

I saw the P&P 2005 version first and liked it a lot but then I discovered about this A&E version and loved it so much!

The 2005 adaptation has nothing to this 1995 A&E adaptation.