Persuasion (2007 film)

Persuasion is a 2007 British television film adaptation of Jane Austens novel Persuasion. It was directed by Adrian Shergold and the screenplay was written by Simon Burke. Sally Hawkins stars as the protagonist Anne Elliot, while Rupert PenryJones plays Frederick Wentworth. Eight years prior to the films beginning, Anne was persuaded to reject Wentworths proposal of marriage. Nowand unmarried, Anne reencounters Wentworth, who has made his fortune in the Napoleonic Wars and is looking for a wifeanyone but Anne, whom he has not forgiven for rejecting him all those years ago.

Eight years before the story begins, Anne Elliot Sally Hawkins had, at the age of 19, been engaged to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth Rupert PenryJones. However, her father Sir Walter Elliot Anthony Head and family friend Lady Russell Alice Krige had persuaded Anne to break off the engagement and give up the man she loved because of his lack of fortune and connections.As the story opens, however, the Elliot family is in financial difficulties due to the lavish spending of Sir Walter and his eldest daughter Elizabeth Julia Davis. To save expense, the Elliot family residence, Kellynch Hall in Somersetshire, has to be let out. Suitable tenants are soon found in Admiral Croft Peter Wight and his wife Marion Bailey. Mrs. Croft is the sister of Frederick Wentworth, who has risen to the rank of Captain and become rich while serving in the Royal Navy. ........

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