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Dakota Johnson is nothing less than enchanting in "Persuasion," director Carrie Cracknell's modern-in-attitude adaptation of Jane Austen's 200-year-old novel.

Netflix’s Persuasion is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, in terms of plot structure. It follows the second-chance romance of Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) and Captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis) through almost exactly the same beats and events as the book.

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Actors including Tim Brierley and Sorcha Cusack narrate this version of the great writer’s final novel originally created for radio

Classic story of a young woman talked out of marrying her true love is turned into a smirking, heavy-handed romcom

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The new trailer for Netflix’s Austen adaptation starring Dakota Johnson frames heroine Anne Elliot as a quippy, messy rom-com lead - a move which undercuts everything that’s so moving about the original novel

Persuasion is an upcoming period drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Jane Austen, and stars Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis and Richard E. Grant