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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:  348 reviews
Sales Rank: 59599
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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 Not what expected March 16, 2010
P. Stallings
This movie was not what I expected. I have read Mansfield Park but did not have any trouble following the movie. I liked it very much. I would highly recommend this movie.
 This had the potential to be a good movie, but.... February 17, 2010
Maura D. Powerssmith (Marston's Mills, MA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is, not only the worst adaptation of a Jane Austen novel I've ever seen, but the worst adaptation of any novel. Even if you view it as a stand-alone historical drama, it suffers from some very strange shifts in style and mood that make it feel cobbled together. Watching this film, I got the feeling that it had been done by a group of at least five different directors, working each from a different script, who took turns passing the camera back and forth. One scene is a whimsical comedy, the next a dark historical drama that wanders far from the text of the novel to explore England's part in the slave trade.
One or two scenes actually did seem to be based on the original work, and these where a bit of a tease, because they where fairly well cast and well acted, but the story was always whisked off in some new and unexpected direction immediately afterward, there being a clear understanding between the makers of this film that there was no way Mansfield Park, (one of the only six completed novels given to the world by Jane Austen) could possibly stand on its own, without at least some gratuitous lesbianism thrown in.
A couple of the directions this movie tried to stumble in actually seemed really interesting; the added subplot of the slave plantation that the Bertram family drew its income from put an entirely different spin on Tom Bertram's character, so that instead of being a worthless prodigal son he became a sensitive artist tormented by guilt. The problem was that this was far too serious a matter to be relegated to subplot and then forgotten when the movie took another turn for the whimsical. The different styles all crammed together in one movie just got in each others way and the scenes didn't seem to fit together in any logical way.
There was no general consensus on what the main character, Fanny Price, was supposed to be either, except (you need only look at the product description to surmise) that she not be allowed to be anything close the the character from the book. She seemed to divide her time between riding great black horses through rainstorms in order to proclaim her liberated womanliness, and quoting directly from the Juvenalia, Jane Austen's early works, in order to establish that she leads a rich inner life, I suppose.
If you've read the book you may be able to enjoy this movie in a MST3K kind of way. I'm curious to know if someone who hasn't read the book would be able to enjoy this movie, or if they would still find the shifts in style as jolting? One thing is certain though; if you haven't read it, and are trying to fake it, for the purposes of a book report, trying to impress someone at your book club, etc, you'd do much, much better with the clifnotes.
 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)
6 out of 6 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.
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