Brittany Murphy and Alicia in “Clueless”, 1995 ————————————————————————- The film's plot, characters, themes and values are all based on Jane Austen's novel Emma. Amy Heckerling was asked by Paramount to write a film for teenagers, and she instantly remembered the novel she read as a teenager. Although with many obvious modernizations and adaptations having been made, Clueless (1995) actually does still dovetail pretty closely to the original plot and central set of characters found in Austen's

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