Mansfield Park (1999) | 
| Director: Patricia Rozema
Actors: Frances O'connor, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, Hannah Taylor-gordon, Talya Gordon
Studio: Miramax
Category: DVD
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Rating:  335 reviews
Sales Rank: 1352
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D18305D
ISBN: 6305907145
UPC: 717951004901
EAN: 9786305907145
ASIN: 6305907145
Theatrical Release Date: November 19, 1999
Release Date: July 11, 2000
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Product Description
A SPIRITED YOUNG WOMAN TURNS PROPER SOCIETY UPSIDE DOWN IN THIS WITTY JANE AUSTEN COMEDY.
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 Typical Austen: You want to conk together the heads of the two who are clearly destined to be together June 8, 2009
Andy Orrock (Dallas, TX)
CodeMaster Talon's spotlight review is perfect - describing the likability of the movie, differences between the adaptation and Austen's original work, and some of his problems with the characters. Yes, I too was frustrated by Jonny Lee Miller's Edmund - he should have been adamantly beating the drums about his feelings towards Fanny. Instead, he comes across as meek and unable to speak his mind. Sure, this is #2 son in the face of a gale force of a father (awesome portrayal by a brilliant Harold Pinter), but as Edmund increasingly fails to state the obvious (that he loves Fanny "as a man loves a woman" - as he finally lets out), you wonder: why again is she attracted to this man? Like most of Austen's work, you spend the entire movie wanting to conk together the heads of the two protagonists who are clearly destined to be together.
Jonny Lee Miller (Eli Stone: The Complete First Season) reminds me of Tom Brady. I half expected Giselle to bound into the screen. Alessandro Nivola and Embeth Davitz are excellent as the Crawford siblings. Nivola and Davidtz played man and wife in the underrated drama Junebug. Best known as Amy Adams' ride to recognition, Junebug's Davidtz and Nivola are every bit her equals in that film.
 Classic Jane Austen May 30, 2009
Anna T. Cleghorn
Another well loved Jane Austen story captured in an amazing way! Well Done!
 They might have walked past this book.... May 23, 2009
A. Reader (Boise, Idaho United States)
but no one associated with this movie could possibly have actually read Mansfield Park. All the charm, the conflicts, most of the story, and all the sense have been removed. What is left is a hodge-podge of a movie that tries feebly to take on the issues of slavery but falls far short of success, while missing the entire point of the original story.
A must see movie from a "Feminist" point of View! Kudos to Rozema (Director)! May 2, 2009
M. Torbert (TX USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I usually write my own reviews without reading other people's comments, however, because I own this movie, I wanted to see how others view and rate it.
That said, this movie is fantastic, witty, daring, playful and deliciously entertaining. I've read and watched the video intake on this version of "Mansfield Park"; the director, Ms. Rozema, did her research, she used Austen's "letters" (which can reveal a lot about how she truly felt on giving situations, but which could not be incorpated into a book, such as the issue of slavery). Hence in doing so, the director gave Fanny some wit, in which, in the book version she is lacking.
How did the director accomplish this? By using what are not usually expressed openly: the treatment of women behind closed doors and the "shocking" treatment of "slave women" during slavery.
This is a very sensitive issue; it is an issue we would want to disappear and pretend did not happen. In actuality, rapes were rampant on plantations and in households where human beings were the property of others, just like cattles.
You can notice, Fanny, as a result, begins to see the world differently when she observed some scenes (Her married cousin, partially nude in the arms of another man and drawings of explicit rapes scenes) that were disturbing and explicitly shocking for her to view (i.e., Drawings of explicit sexual abuse of enslaved women on a plantation owned by her aunt's husband on Antigua; Honestly, the drawings, were painful for me to watch; I have to admit that I abhor the mistreatment of women, no matter what form it presents itself; in that, I'm a true feminist). She becomes stronger, wittier and a new sense of awakening develops within her, which makes her see the people, ultimately, the world around her more closely.
The "explicit" content of the film is at most two to three minutes. And the partial nudity is very brief. Can this film be used as an educational tool for high school students, well, it can be made viewable by skipping the explicit and objectionable scenes. Those disturbing scenes can be explained to young and older adolescent students by the teacher.
All in all, this film is well-acted and agreeably diverting with a feminist flair.
I recommend this movie because the director did an outstanding job (by including Jane Austen's letters to support her vision on this adaptation of the book) and the heroine of the movie truly shines!
 Could be good. Vulgar scenes ruin it. April 16, 2009
Tracee N. Pickle
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie could have truly been in gem in our family. I know it makes it more realistic, but the two scenes (sexual slave drawings and the scene were fanny walks in on Mr. Crawford on Maria) ruin it for me. I was shocked after watching a perfectly clean movie so far to see those things thrown in. They were totally useless. I cannot allow my children to watch it nor would I watch it again.
If these scenes were not there, this would be one of my favorite movies. Is there a version out there without them?
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