Jane Austen your cup of tea? Warm yourself with these

0 Comments | USA TODAY, November, 2005 | by Mike Clark

Jane Austen enjoyed a prolific screen decade in the 1990s. Now she's back with a new film version of Pride & Prejudice, opening Friday, that at least will get Keira Knightley out of that awful Domino eye makeup. Until then, here are three (or four) rewarding ways to go:

Pride and Prejudice

1996, A&E, unrated, $40

Talk about ad-copy blurbs you won't see anywhere else: I once quit watching a Yankees-Indians game to sail happily through this five-hour, 10-minute BBC miniseries. Jennifer Ehle plays coolly intelligent but emotionally percolating Elizabeth Bennet, and she doesn't make a faulty move. Colin Firth, hamstrung at first by his character's rigidity, matches Ehle as the socially loftier Darcy -- realizing before she does that they're soul mates. Not on...