Persuasion [DVD]

In the Persuasion DVD, a young couple's stormy romance scandalizes English society in this BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's classic love story.

Anne Elliott (Sally Hawkins) has spent years regretting her rejection of Captain Wentworth (Rupert Penry-Jones)'s proposal of marriage, her family having been against the match on grounds of class. When he returns from sea they meet but, instead of finding romance, are kept apart through a series of misunderstandings.

Anne is being pursued by her cousin, Mr Elliott (Tobias Menzies), while Captain Wentworth is regarded as a very eligible bachelor and has a stream of young women with marriage in mind beating a path to his door.

Will their second chance at love be ruined by the social conventions that destroyed it once? Or will the heart be persuaded by rules of its own?