Mansfield Park (1998)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 68
Fresh: 52 | Rotten: 16
Solid performances, bold direction.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 8
Solid performances, bold direction.
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Average Rating: 3.7/5
User Ratings: 21,339
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Freely adapted from a novel by Jane Austen, this period drama is set in the early 1800s, as a girl named Fanny (Hannah Taylor Gordon) is being raised by loving but desperately poor parents. Wanting a better life for Fanny, they send her away to live with her aunts, high-minded Mrs. Norris (Sheila Gish) and drug-addicted Lady Bertram (Lindsay Duncan), who share an estate called Mansfield Park. Fanny joins the family at Mansfield Park, which includes Lady Bertram's husband Sir Thomas (Harold
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Cast
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Frances O'Connor
Fanny Price -
Jonny Lee Miller
Edmund Bertram -
Alessandro Nivola
Henry Crawford -
Embeth Davidtz
Mary Crawford -
Harold Pinter
Sir Thomas Bertram -
Lindsay Duncan
Lady Bertram, Mrs.Price -
Sheila Gish
Mrs. Norris -
James Purefoy
Tom Bertram -
Hugh Bonneville
Mr. Rushworth -
Justine Waddell
Julia Bertram -
Victoria Hamilton
Maria Bertram -
Sophia Myles
Susan -
Hilton McRae
Mr. Price -
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Young Fanny -
Charles Edwards
Yates -
Anna Popplewell
Betsey
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All Critics (78) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (52) | Rotten (16) | DVD (7)
While this version plays somewhat fast and loose with the original story, and even more so with the heroine's character, it is still much more Jane Austen than not.
Top CriticThis Mansfield Park becomes a kind of romanticized gloss -- an imaginative grad-student thesis that melds author and character.
Patricia Rozema's Mansfield Park continues Jane Austen's winning streak on film.
Spins the most interesting modern re-interpretation of the Austen canon.
Wonderful book adaptation with strong female character.
Mansfield Park works because it not only comes from the novel...but also from Austen's letters and journals.
While Mansfield Park doesn't boast the high calibre Hollywood star wattage and gloss of Sense and Sensibility, it offers a more thought-provoking viewpoint.
...busy nothings add up to motion picture somethings in one of the year's most charming films.
Despite such occasional flaws...Mansfield Park is a welcome treat for Austen addicts.
A powerful portrait of a determined young woman's quest to remain true to the vastness of her spirit and soul.
An uneven but ultimately stirring adaptation from Canadian director Patricia Rozema.
Rozema's thoughtful pacing and deliberately modern spin on the tale keep the rot from setting in.
Audience Reviews for Mansfield Park
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- Sir Thomas Bertram: What do you distrust?
- Fanny Price: His nature, sir. Like many charming people, he conceals an almost absolute dependence on the appreciation of others.
- Sir Thomas Bertram: And what is the terrible ill in that?
- Fanny Price: His sole interest is in being loved, sir, not in loving.
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