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Persuasion is a 2022 American historical romance film based on Jane Austen's 1817 novel of the same name. It was directed by Carrie Cracknell from a screenplay by Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow. The film stars Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Richard E. Grant, and Henry Golding.
Persuasion was released to theaters in the United States on July 8, 2022, a week before its streaming release on July 15, 2022, by Netflix.
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It's been 8 years since Anne Elliot broke off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, at the time a young and undistinguished naval officer. He was considered clever, confident and ambitious, but his low social status and lack of wealth made Anne's friends and family view him as an unsuitable partner. Furthermore, Lady Russell, a distant relative whom Anne considers to be a second mother to her after her own died, also saw the relationship as imprudent for one so young, so persuaded Anne to break off the engagement.
Sir Walter Elliot, his debts mounting, reluctantly decides to lease their family estate Kellynch Hall to Admiral Croft. Sir Walter and Anne’s sister Elizabeth, along with the widowed Mrs Penelope Clay, go to Bath while Anne is instructed to care for her sister Mary, who has taken ill.
Admiral Croft and his wife arrive and reveal that Admiral Croft's wife is Wentworth's sister. While visiting Mary, the Admiral, his wife and Captain Wentworth are expected for dinner; Mary recovers from her illness for the dinner, and Anne volunteers to miss the dinner to sit with Mary's injured son. Unknowing of their previous attachment, one of Mary's sisters-in-law, Louisa, encourages Anne to pursue Captain Wentworth but ends up doing so herself.
