Unleashing Mr. Darcy
By: The Hallmark Channel
Rating: 4 of 5
“Unleashing Mr. Darcy” is one of the latest remakes of Jane Austen’s iconic novel, “Pride and Prejudice”. I’m quite a fan of all of Ms. Austen’s works with “Pride and Prejudice” being one of my favorites. I’ve read many books and seen both movie and television mini-series interpretations and always look forward to seeing a new take on it.
In “Unleashing Mr. Darcy”, the role of Elizabeth Bennet is transformed into Elizabeth Scott (played by Cindy Busby) and Fitzwilliam Darcy becomes Donovan Darcy (played by Ryan Paevey). In the story, recently unemployed (unfairly fired) Elizabeth finds temporary employment as a dog handler and is also able to show her own King Charles Spaniel at a dog show where Darcy is judging the competition.
The two meet in less than stellar circumstances and are left with less than wonderful views of one another. In that sense, the movie follows the book very well. Darcy certainly appears full of pride and Elizabeth is quick to form opinions based on very little face.