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Overview
Release Date:
19 November 1999 (USA) moreTagline:
Jane Austen's Wicked ComedyPlot:
At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband... more | add synopsisAwards:
4 nominations moreUser Comments:
Mansfield Park on speed moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Hannah Taylor-Gordon | ... | Young Fanny (as Hannah Taylor Gordon) | |
| Talya Gordon | ... | Young Susan | |
| Lindsay Duncan | ... | Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram | |
| Bruce Byron | ... | Carriage Driver | |
| James Purefoy | ... | Tom Bertram | |
| Sheila Gish | ... | Mrs. Norris | |
| Harold Pinter | ... | Sir Thomas Bertram | |
| Elizabeth Eaton | ... | Young Maria | |
| Elizabeth Earl | ... | Young Julia | |
| Philip Sarson | ... | Young Edmond | |
| Amelia Warner | ... | Teenage Fanny | |
| Frances O'Connor | ... | Fanny Price | |
| Jonny Lee Miller | ... | Edmund Bertram | |
| Victoria Hamilton | ... | Maria Bertram | |
| Hugh Bonneville | ... | Mr. Rushworth |
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Rated PG-13 for brief violent images, sexual content and drug use.Parents Guide:
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112 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Dolby DigitalCertification:
Iceland:L | South Korea:15 | Malaysia:U | Australia:M | Germany:6 | Hong Kong:IIB | Netherlands:AL | New Zealand:M | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:PG-13MOVIEmeter: 
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The instrument played by Julia and Maria Bertram is an armonica, invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761. moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: The harp that Mary Crawford is playing is a double action harp. The double action harp was not invented until 1810, while the movie took place in 1806. moreQuotes:
Henry Crawford: What? A compliment? Heavens rejoice, she complimented me!Fanny Price: I complimented your dancing, Mr. Crawford, keep your wig on.
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This isn't an awful movie. It's quite watchable. Some of the acting, especially from Pinter is excellent.
But the rest resembles those films made from classic novels in the 30s where no one concerned in making it had time to read the book. A quick treatment by a college student, a quick script conference, then off we go. Rozema has almost no idea of what the book is about but is entirely unembarrassed by her ignorance in her interview on the DVD.
Austen fans don't have to wait long to discover just how far off the wavelength she is. The first contact between Sir Thomas and Fanny is a reproof for running through MP's corridors shrieking like a banshee. Lines are taken from Mary Crawford in the book and given to Fanny in the film. How's that for missing the point? One by one characters appear looking no more recognisable than if they were appearing in a literary celebrity edition of Scooby Doo.
I agree with other reviewers that if the film was called something else and the characters had different names, it would be impossible to trace it's origins to Austen's book which is definitely not a conventional love story about bright young things getting together having overcome a few obstacles.
There's very little to choose between the morals of Rozema's characters, so nothing of the catastrophic descent into the abyss is associated with the production of Lover's Vows, nor do we have any glimpse of Rushworth and Crawford vandalising Sotherton. Mrs Norris is one of the most deliciously evil creations in literature - Rozema reduces her part to a few lines. Thomas Betram is a "modern" artist - yikes! William Price, Fanny's brother and one of the key relationships in the book, is missing altogether. Susan, her sister, has been reading too many Style magazines.
Mansfield Park might have been a bit like this had it been written by Georgette Heyer or even Jackie Collins. As an Austen adaptation it is execrable. But it's so far off the mark, that as something else entirely, it's not all that bad. Maybe they should just change the title.