[Movie Script]Sense and Sensibility

"SENSE AND SENSIBILITY"

Screenplay by
Emma Thompson
Based on the novel by
Jane Austen




               EXT. OPEN ROADS - NIGHT - TITLE SEQUENCE



A series of traveling shots. A well-dressed, pompous-looking

individual (JOHN DASHWOOD, 35) is making an urgent journey

on horseback. He looks anxious.
               EXT. NORLAND PARK - ENGLAND - MARCH 1800 - NIGHT



Silence. Norland Park, a large country house built in the

early part of the eighteenth century, lies in the moonlit

parkland.
               INT. NORLAND PARK - MR DASHWOOD'S BEDROOM - NIGHT



In the dim light shed by candles we see a bed in which a MAN

(MR DASHWOOD, 52) lies his skin waxy, his breathing laboured.

Around him two silhouettes move and murmur, their clothing

susurrating in the deathly hush. DOCTORS. A WOMAN (MRS

DASHWOOD, 50) sits by his side, holding his hand, her eyes

never leaving his face.
                                     MR DASHWOOD


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