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Mansfield Park [1999] [2000] starring: Frances O'Connor, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Talya Gordon directed by: Patricia Rozema List Price: £15.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £4.08 You Save: £11.91 (74%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5017188884334 Format: PAL, Widescreen Label: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Region Code: 2 Release Date: June 15, 2006 Running Time: 107 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Theatrical Release Date: November 19, 1999 Sales Rank: 3575 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Patricia Rozema is a Canadian director with the nerve to helm smart, big budget movies, as she proves again in Mansfield Park. She had her first hit with the quirky I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) in which the heroine, a mouse among art gallery sharks, eventually comes into her own, surpassing the mentor who's risen on her back. Similarly, in Mansfield Park, adapted from Jane Austen's strongly autobiographical novel, penniless city mouse Fanny Price (Frances O'Connor) comes to live in a handsome country manor with the Bertrams, her heartless, class-conscious relations. After many cruel setbacks, Fanny manages, by dint of writing talent and moral integrity, to win the day and the love of her life Edmund (Trainspotting's Jonny Lee Miller). Unlike filmmakers who dress up Austen's money-driven world in sweetness and light, Rozema rubs our noses in the fact that the Bertrams' wealth flows from the blood and sweat of faraway slaves. The adaptation never euphemises the down-and-dirty slum life which has swallowed up Fanny's mother and threatens Fanny if she refuses to marry the handsome but hollow fortune hunter (Alessandro Nivola) chosen for her by her benefactors. Playwright Harold Pinter is compelling as Mansfield Park's patriarch, Sir Thomas Bertram, capable of kindness but stone-cold when his aristocratic will is crossed. Embeth Davidtz (playing Mary, the amoral sibling of Fanny's suitor, with wonderfully seductive verve) and O'Connor almost resemble each other--and they are sisters of a sort, each vying, according to her talents, in a stock market where women must parlay sex to stay alive. In this entertaining ride in the socioeconomic fast lane circa 1806, Jane Austen comes across as a full-blooded proto-feminist with savvy charm.--Kathleen Murphy, Amazon.com Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Sorry, but I like itI have to say that I am astonished to see how poorly this film is rated by many other reviewers. I've read a Jane Austen or two, but not Mansfield Park. Consequently, when I saw this film for the first time I thought it was great, and I still do because I still haven't read the book. It's clear from reading the many other reviews that the makers of this film have greatly upset the Austen purists by substantially altering the story and characters and bringing in non-original elements such as the references to slavery, which anyone could guess was where the family money must have come from. However, the fact remains that this is a very, very decent film in its own right. Frances O' Connor's Fanny Price - ... Read More: Rating:  - Instead of changing the story, they should have changed the title.I had seen this film a few times without reading the book. I didn't know the story so thought it was a really lovely film and enjoyed the cinematography and acting. I was quite happy to watch it a couple of times after that Then, recently I bought the Complete Works of Jane Austin and finally read and enjoyed the book. It had been a while since I saw the film, so dug it out again. This time I was horrified as to what they had actually done with it!! Whoever wrote the script, they may as well have started from scratch and then claimed the glory for themselves!! There were so many things wrong in this film that it drove me to distraction. What's the deal with the slavery? The sex scene that Fanny Price walks in on? Fanny's engagement??? ... Read More: Rating:  - An Intriguing adaptationReading the reviews submitted on the topic of Jane Austen novels, I wonder why so much criticism is directed toward a film's total adherence to every aspect of her books. I have all her novels, and read them periodically and know the stories as she wrote them. I find it interesting to see the various features, within her stories, used by producers to try and interpret how she wanted her characters to come across to her readers. Whatever form of interpretation is offered by whatever producer, it will never satisfy everyone as the script writers have to be selective as well as inventive because of the film's time-scale. For me, any production of her work simply immortalises Jane Austen novels still more. When the need arises that I want to relive the ... Read More: Rating:  - Actually worth no stars at allIf film producers want to make a film about a feisty young girl in Regency times (and I'm sure there were lots) who goes to live with rich relatives who are only rich because they exploit the slave trade and then marries the younger son of the household ... I'm sure they could do so without pretending they are filming a Jane Austen book. Everything about this film offended me, from the casting to the storyline. It was all wrong. Maybe I want too much. After all, the novel itself is a very different one to P&P or S&S, but even so, it has a quiet delicate charm that is entirely missing from this film. If you are a 'Janeite', don't waste your time watching this. If you really don't care what film makers do to books as long as ... Read More: Rating: - What happened to Jane's version?Whilst I understand that films need a large audience to make profits, what a shame they polluted this wonderful novel so much in this adeptation. Not only were so many key scences deleted in the film but portrayl of Fanny was so far removed from Jane Austen's account. Fanny was portrayed as far too outspoken and physically energetic, there appeared to be no real reference to her delicate health problems which are important in building her real character and disposition. On the one point that Fanny is assertive (though inwardly), that being her fustration and anger towards both Mary Crawford and Edmund with regard to their unsettled plans for marriage, is completely missing from the film. This is such a shame because given the extent ... Read More: |
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