A gentlewoman, Margaret Hale, moves to the industrializing north with her family. She and Mr. Thornton, a mill plant owner have a bad first impression of each other. She spends time getting to know the lower working class in the area, and there's sick people all over the place, because of all the pollution. Mr. Thornton begins to be attracted to her, and she to him, while there's fermenting dissent among the workers.
Deals heavily with class differences, the effect of industrializing Britain and other things political. The woman looks like Rachel Weiss. Does have note of Pride & Prejudice in it, with the bad first impression and all that. Girl is outspoken. Man appears cold and heartless. Then again, plenty of story has this plot. If Mr. Thornton was a character set in the modern day, he'd totally be a Republican, and working or owning a company financed, or some how related to Dick Chaney.
It's okay. Wouldn't watch it again, unless I fast forward all the parts about how life was shit back then if you were a wage worker and didn't have money. If I lived in England back then, I would stay away from the industrializing center. I'd stay in the countryside like Darwin, and make a name for myself in the science.
Favorite scenes - when it didn't look grimy, which was hardly ever.
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