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Sense and Sensibility
TAIWAN · 1995

Sense and Sensibility

Ang Lee
social class marriage and romance financial hardship sisterhood family duty
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Synopsis

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find roman

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