Movie

Pride and Prejudice

2003

Insufficient evidence

We did not find enough credible, independent evidence to publish a numeric cash-grab score. Unrated is more honest than a guess.

What counts as a cash grab?

Commercial extraction prioritized over meaningful consumer or creative value. Profit, popularity, adaptations, sequels, remakes, high budgets, and normal marketing do not count by themselves.

Why?

Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy (2003) is an independent modern adaptation of Jane Austen set in Provo, Utah produced and distributed by the LDS-oriented Excel Entertainment Group. The film was shot in roughly five weeks, had a reported budget of about $350,000 and modest box office returns, opened in select Utah theaters December 2003 and saw a DVD release in November 2004. Contemporary reviews were mixed, and sources note the producer aimed to attract both LDS and non-LDS audiences.

Producers intentionally adapted Austen to a contemporary Provo/LDS setting and aimed for cross-audience appeal, per production reporting.
Distributor Excel removed the film's Latter-day subtitle from some packaging to broaden market reach, a notable marketing choice.
Budget and box office were modest, the film made only a small theatrical return over production costs.

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Score factors

Direction	Factor	Evidence	Impact
Against	Evidence of actual production effort	Reporting notes a five-week shoot, cast preparation within LDS culture, and some positive critical praise for screenplay, pacing and production design.[1]	-15
Against	Mixed contemporary reviews	Contemporary critics were divided, with some praising the adaptation and others calling it a poor-quality or forced update.[2]	-9

Confidence: Low · No source-backed commercial-extraction signal was found. · Researched 2026-08-11

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