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:  353 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,395
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
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 01830500
ISBN: 6305907145
UPC: 717951004901
EAN: 9780788818356
ASIN: 6305907145
Theatrical Release Date: November 19, 1999
Release Date: July 11, 2000
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 This cast, the 1983 screenplay... too bad that didn't happen August 17, 2010
Vince Caruso
If you could have transported this cast to the 1983 screenplay (or just redone it with this cast) you would have had a film in the same league with A&E's Pride and Prejudice. The notable exception would have been for O'connor to have copied Sylvestra Le Touzel's shy and humble Fanny. And for Lindsay Duncan to have copied Angela Pleasence's sleepy Lady Bertram instead of the director's choice of making her a drug addict. And of course the last (and perhaps worst problem) is that instead of telling Jane's Mansfield, the writer Roszema turns it in her political soap box with the political correct condemnation of slavery and also finishing out turning Fanny into a Jane wannabe writer... Maybe her dream (and failure), but not Fanny's (or Jane's for that matter).
A vulgar version of a somewhat Mansfied August 2, 2010
Ana Bárbara Nicolay Levinspuhl (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
I wonder what Jane Austen would think of this. Had I seen it before reading the novel I don't believe I would even care to look twice at the book. And it's one of my all-time favorites.
I'm not a Austen purist, but I was truly repulsed by some scenes on this adaptation. When Fanny walks in on Henry and Maria having sex, it's very graphic and unnecessary.
She also stumbles upon drawings that suggest Sir Thomas to be a rapist! This especially infuriated me. What gives them the right to put in something like that?! Make Sir Thomas such a horrid man throughout the whole movie...
The relation between Edmund and Fanny is sweet however, but not at all accurate. One of the problems is that is quite impossible to catch the essence of a extense and deep novel as this in 120 minutes. Still I believe they could have made better that THIS.
I won't say it was wasted money, but only because I'm eager to make my Austen collection complete.
 The worst adaptation ever made. July 22, 2010
Mary T. Bohler (Jacksonville, FL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie is an abomination. Jane Austin would have been ashamed to watch some of it's scenes. The director took so many liberties with this movie its ridiculous. She purposefully changed the main character "Fanny" from a sweet, wise, innocent, and honest girl, to a feminist with an anti-slavery agenda which was not in the book at all! Miss Crawford is presented as bi-sexual and Mr. Crawford is actually presented in a likable manner when you are supposed to know he is a flirt and a scumbag! All the majesty of a beautiful, wealthy house is some how missing and all the characters are inaccurate in some way from the way Jane Austin wrote them.
Do not buy this movie. EVER.
Loved the Book, Hate the Movie.. July 14, 2010
Loreedarlin (TX)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I recently read Mansfield Park, and loved the story so I couldn't wait to get the movie home and watch my favorite characters come to life....what a disappointment.
Fannie price is supposed to be a quiet, mild mannered, sweet tempered young lady, she had opinion's but she didn't share them. I didn't care for the way Hollywood portrayed her character at all.
Hollywood also got Sir Thomas's character wrong, they portray him as mean hearted and vile, while in Jane Austen's Novel he is quiet and distant but he loves his family and you get a clear sense of that...
And where is William Price, Fannie's brother. He is such an important part of Fannie's life, and yet they dicided to cut the character from the movie....really!
There is no love making or graphic pictures spoken of in the novel, why did they feel the need to put it in the movie...There are still people in this world that will watch movies without filth!
I had no idea, Mrs. Betram was a opium junkie. Maybe I misunderstood her character in the novel....but I doubt it.
Mrs. Norris, Edmond Bertram, Miss Crawford and Mr. Crawford's characters were spot on.
But as for the movie as a whole, the lighting was bad, the screenplay questionable....I just didn't get it. I'm hoping some better qualified director and screenwriter will come along and give it another try...
 Mansfield Park - Frances O'Connor July 9, 2010
Shirley
I really like this version of Mansfield Park. It has more of the Austin book portrayed on screen. I am a big fan of the classics. I will be ordering more DVDs in this genre in the future.
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