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gwendyt
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Posted: Feb 18 2009 at 5:00pm \| IP Logged

I'm wanting to update our Netflix queue, and the girls (12,10)and I have watched Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice together - and loved them! What else can I add that would be along the same lines that's appropriate for their ages too?

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I really liked North and South and Wives and Daughters for that age group.

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Sense and Sensibility

We really enjoyed the BBC version of David Copperfield

Emma

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I seond Sense and Sensiblity. My girls and I watched this last week. I didn't really like the book but the movie was wonderful. My girls, even my 6 yr. old, enjoyed it.

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Posted: Feb 19 2009 at 9:12am \| IP Logged

thanks for the suggestions everyone - i'm adding them all now. any others?

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Posted: Feb 20 2009 at 11:19am \| IP Logged

I just wanted to mention that the Masterpiece Theatre version (recently on PBS) of Sense and Sensibility opened with a scene that I don't think would be appropriate for girls in that age group.

I know--how did they manage it? They didn't leave to the imagination Willoughby and his affair with Col Brandon's niece.

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MrsM wrote:

I was actually just coming back to say you might preview my suggestions. There is a rather violent scene at the beginning of North and South and I forgot about another scene of a man committing suicide. You will want to skip those scenes. I usually skip them myself and forgot

Also, in Wives and Daughters, you might find one scene where a girl is being wooed by an older man a bit old. It is tastefully done considering, but since yours are young, it doesn't leave quite so much to the imagination as in P&P (though, the actual sin isn't so far).

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Posted: Feb 20 2009 at 7:26pm \| IP Logged

Mrs. M, I didn't see the beginning of the movie (neither did my children) so thank you for alerting us to that.

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Posted: Feb 20 2009 at 7:52pm \| IP Logged

MrsM wrote:

Whoa!

The one I recommended was the old BBC version

Thanks for the heads up.

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Posted: Feb 21 2009 at 8:24am \| IP Logged

We loved North and South.

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Posted: Feb 24 2009 at 11:49am \| IP Logged

I'm wondering if these shows have a BBC version as well, and are they "safer"? I think JE and P&P that I watched was BBC, not Masterpiece Theater, now that I think about it. I just watched Emma from Masterpiece, though, and we liked it.

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Posted: Feb 24 2009 at 11:56am \| IP Logged

I think that Masterpiece Theater simply produces or co-produces things with the BBC to distribute them to an American audience. The movies are often the same.

So many things are relative, too. I probably would have watched the movies I mentioned without editing as a 12 year old and perhaps 10, but I wanted to warn you because I'm not sure how I would feel as a parent. I think that though I felt very sheltered, my parents were more lenient in this than I tend to be.

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