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Mansfield Park (1999) |  | Director: Patricia Rozema
Actors: Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Talya Gordon, Lindsay Duncan, Bruce Byron, James Purefoy
Category: DVD
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Rating:  346 reviews
Sales Rank: 107181
Format: NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
UPC: 065935132745
EAN: 0065935132745
ASIN: B000065K5G
Theatrical Release Date: November 19, 1999
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 absolutely loves it! January 10, 2010
Janet S
This is a movie (not a book.) The characters therein are developed very well (and the director only has two hours to successfully do this-which she has.) If a director is successful enough to get me to care about her characters then she has done a darn good job. I love this movie-the look, the feel, the characters-everything goes together quite nicely. I highly recommend it especially if you love a good romantic period piece like I do.
 All I could do was scream at the tv. January 10, 2010
Kimberly Dicus (kansas)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This movie made me IRATE. MP is one of my favorite Austen novels, but this movie was horrendous. I agree that you might like it if you haven't read the book, but if you HAVE read the book, get ready to get really pissed off. I don't know if I would call myself an "Austen Purist"--I LOVE the 2007 Persuasion despite its liberties. I feel the changes they made in that one were fairly minor and added to the story. They did NOT, however change the characters. In this MP, the only thing they kept the same about the characters were their names. The reason I love Jane Austen is that I love her characters. And Fanny Price is my favorite of all. I take great offense to how much her character was completely rewritten for the movie. Edmund? Same thing. And honestly, I can't handle how they changed Sir Thomas either. His character is completely unlike the Sir Thomas in the book.
Whose idea was this? They should be forced to...well...I don't know. Sit through something really enraging. Because that's what just happened to me.
Monumentally botched December 28, 2009
D. Knapp
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Austen purists are snobbish people who always find fault with cinematic adaptations. But with "adaptations" like this one, can anyone blame us? Does no one feel our frustration when the Hollywood Hacks think they can add something that Jane Austen missed? Or totally ruin the beautiful harmonious balance and wit of the book with modifications to make it amenable to the modern viewer? This version is appalling. Fanny is all wrong, Maria and Julia look like baboons, Sir Thomas is very evil and Tom driven to dissolution by the family's Antigua slaveholdings. This last is the most significant departure. While exploring how institutions like slavery morally bankrupted those who profited from it makes a worthy subject, Mansfield Park is not the venue. Especially as it is done with such a heavy touch. The issue is so blunderingly belabored that it completely destroys the movie. Add to this the enragingly pointless scenes where Fanny accepts then rejects Crawford's proposal (WHY?), and this movie is a confirmed stinker.
A Real Classic December 20, 2009
Autumn (Venice, Florida, USA)
I love this movie. Definatly one of my top favorites. If you like the Classics you'll love this movie. Fanny Price is such a great character you fall in love with her immediately. The hidden Love triangles through out this movie are fantastic and it kept me guessing until the end which of course you'll love. A girls night movie for everyone. If you like Jane Austin you have to see this
 better than the novel December 14, 2009
Miss Ivonne (Louisville, KY USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's extremely rare that a film improves upon the original. "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" are two of the few. However, the 1999 film version of "Mansfield Park," Jane Austen's least satisfying novel, is yet another.
Austen purists may well be appalled, but Frances O'Connor brings to life a heroine more in the classic Austen mode, more like Elizabeth Bennett or Marianne Dashwood. O'Connor's Fanny is clever and witty -- a vast improvement over the priggish milquetoast Fanny of the novel! The film is supplemented from Austen's own letters, making Fanny more representative of Austen herself than of the moralizing, nebbishy Fanny of the book.
To those who sniff that this filmed version isn't true to the spirit of the novel's Fanny Price, I say hip, hip, hooray!!
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