Love & Friendship (2016) on Netflix
PG20161h 30mComedyDramaRomance
Lady Susan Vernon, recently widowed, takes up residence at her in-laws' estate while society rumors about her spread. She wants wealthy husbands for herself and her daughter Frederica.
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- Netflix2.8/5
- IMDb6.4/1027,872 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes96%
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Plot summary
In the 1790s, the recently widowed Lady Susan Vernon seeks a wealthy match for her daughter Frederica and a wealthy husband for herself. Turned out of the Manwaring estate after an affair with the married Lord Manwaring, she and her companion Mrs Cross go to Churchill, the home of her late husband's brother Charles Vernon and his wife Catherine. Reginald DeCourcy, Catherine's brother, knows Lady Susan's reputation as a determined flirt and is soon charmed by her. His father, Sir Reginald DeCourcy, warns him against marrying her. Sir James Martin, a wealthy and foolish man, follows Frederica to Churchill.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Love & Friendship (2016)
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- Sienna Miller was reported in February 2014 to have been cast as Lady Susan, with Chloë Sevigny as her friend Alicia, but Miller later left the project and Kate Beckinsale replaced her in the role in 2015.
- Kate Beckinsale said in an AOL Build interview released in May 2016 that filming on the Jane Austen period film was completed in just 27 days.
- Costume designer Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh put Lady Susan in mostly black, gray and mauve in the countryside, matching the mourning dress of the period, and brighter, more corseted dresses in London to show her becoming "a confident society lady".
