Based on the Jane Austen novel, Emma tells the story of a young woman in England who plays her town’s matchmaker. When attempting to match up her friend with the Reverend Elton, Emma starts to run into complications, which multiply amongst themselves with cases of mistaken intentions of love, a cast of supporting characters who each love someone else, but Emma doesn’t know who loves who, and Emma finally realizing the one person she truly loves. –IMDb
This version of Emma works so well for me because, let's face it, Gwyneth Paltrow IS Emma: A beautiful, well-meaning woman so cocooned in her life of privilege that her opinions and ideas are woefully out-of-touch and misguided. (See: GOOP.) Also, didn't she hook up her one-time best friend Winona Ryder with Matt Damon in what turned out to be an ill-fated romance? My case rests.