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Hit · 8.4xBudget$16M
Worldwide Gross$134.6M
A faithful Regency romance centered on the Dashwood sisters' love and growth, with zero modern politics or identity messaging for a clean 1/10 woke score. Pure story-driven entertainment.
The 1995 film is a faithful adaptation of Jane Austen's 1811 novel, with Emma Thompson's screenplay preserving the original plot of the Dashwood sisters navigating inheritance loss, marriage prospects, and Regency-era social constraints through personal growth and romantic entanglements.
No modern progressive elements appear: casting features period-appropriate white actors in all lead roles including Elinor (Emma Thompson), Marianne (Kate Winslet), and Edward (Hugh Grant), with no race- or gender-swapping of established characters or insertion of contemporary identity politics. Themes center on class, fortune, and emotional balance in a traditional narrative framework, without critiques of patriarchy, systemic oppression, or DEI mandates.
We've run a full content analysis on Sense and Sensibility and scored it 1/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
Our analysis checks for themes like identity politics, race-swapping, gender ideology, environmental activism, anti-religious messaging, and other progressive agenda elements. The score breakdown above shows which specific categories were flagged and how heavily they factor into Sense and Sensibility's overall score.
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We evaluate media across multiple ideological categories on a 0–10 scale. Scores of 0–3 mean story-first, 4–6 have moderate elements, and 7–10 flag heavily agenda-driven content.
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