Amy Heckerling transposes Jane Austen’s Emma to Southern California mall culture with Alicia Silverstone as the contemporary stand-in for Austen’s title busybody, matchmaking and Pygmalioning it up even as her own life gets a bit random. Even laden with 30-year speech and standards, the director’s script sparkles. A perfect film. – Lee Gardner
1995 Amy Heckerling 1.85:1 Color DCP 97 min.
