In Persuasion, hopeless romantic Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) is persuaded by her family to break off her engagement to inconsequential naval officer Captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis).

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there are plenty more gold nuggets in Netflix’s Persuasion. Richard E. Grant is brilliant as the vain and arrogant Sir Walter Elliot, Mia McKenna-Bruce is fittingly grating as Anne’s ...

Eight years ago, Anne Elliot rejected Frederick Wentworth, the man she loved, out of a sense of duty and obedience. Now an ignored and faded spinster, she follows her financially stricken family ...