Pride & Prejudice Trailer - Directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley Talulah Riley Rosamund Pike Jena Malone and Carey Mulligan Pride and Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr Bennet is an english gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. If Mr Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependant on the daughters making good marriages.Universal - 2005