18世纪英国乡间班纳特家有五个女儿，班纳特太太整天焦躁不已，最大的心愿就是将女儿们一个个嫁出去。一日年青富家子宾利先生搬进城内的消息传来，令班纳特太太兴奋不已，希望大女儿简能获取宾利先生青睐。舞会上宾利果然看上了最漂亮的大小姐。而宾利的老友达西（柯林·菲尔斯 Colin Firth 饰）却天性傲慢，直言难与平民交往，更不屑与老二伊丽莎白跳舞（詹妮弗·艾莉 Jennifer Ehle 饰）。可不久达西对她活泼可爱的举止产生了好感。达西虽然欣赏伊丽莎白，却无法忍受她母亲及妹妹们粗俗无礼的举止，劝说宾利放弃娶简。宾格来和简因为误会，关系危在旦夕，伊丽莎白也因为这件事迁怒于达西。最终班纳特能否顺利嫁出五个女儿，宾格来与简、达西与伊丽莎白会不会从迷失中走来，缔结幸福良缘？

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.