Jennifer Jason Leigh is superb as a shy, plain, rich young woman who lives in 19th-century New York City with her stern doctor father (Albert Finney) and is courted by penniless, fortune-hunting charmer Ben Chaplin, upsetting dad but delighting her aunt (Maggie Smith).
This richly enjoyable, top-quality period drama is an impressively sumptuous, intense and exquistely acted adaptation of the Henry James classic novel, previously filmed in 1949 as The Heiress with Olivia de Havilland.
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