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Persuasion is a BBC Screen Two 1995 period drama film directed by Roger Michell and based on Jane Austen's 1817 novel of the same name. In her theatrical film debut, Amanda Root stars as protagonist Anne Elliot , while Ciarán Hinds plays her romantic interest, Captain Frederick Wentworth .
"This decision further increased funding to £1,000,000, and Persuasion was shot on 35 mm film." This is still jarring to me- it's simply not clear what the relationship between these two claims are. I've decided to just removed "35 mm film" from the statement, as the source isn't clear on this either.
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Anne Elliot is the protagonist of Jane Austen's sixth and last completed novel, Persuasion (1817).. Anne Elliot was persuaded, when she was 19 years old, to break off her engagement with Frederick Wentworth, a promising young lieutenant in the Royal Navy but a commoner without fortune, and she has never married.
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Persuasion is a 2007 British television film adaptation of Jane Austen's 1817 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 Penry-Jones plays Captain Frederick Wentworth .