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The new film of "Pride and Prejudice," directed by Joe Wright, plays fast and loose with the novel. This is a good thing, the fast being as welcome as the loose. You can hear the creaks and scrapes as the screenwriter, Deborah Moggach, moves around the furniture of the plot and tosses out--not without regret, presumably--many of the charming inessentials. Still, the lovers and the loathers stay intact. Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) despises, tolerates, and eventually melts before Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen), whose country pad is the size of a small planet--not that Lizzie cares a fig for such ephemera. Meanwhile, her sister Jane (Rosamund Pike) makes timid eyes at a ...