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Actors: Frances O'Connor, Jonny Lee Miller, Harold Pinter, Lindsay Duncan, Allesandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Mansfield Park |
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Fanny Price's mother made the mistake of marrying for love, while her sister, Lady Bertram, married for position and became Lady Bertram. Now it is 1806, and young Fanny goes to live with her relatives the Bertrams at Mansfield Park. She likes her cousin Edmund the best, but neighbor Henry Crawford is attracted to sharp and pretty Fanny, and her uncle Lord Bertram pushes the match. Fanny has a mind of her own, however -- she writes a lot, unusual in a young woman of the time -- and requests that Henry prove his worth, which irritates her uncle. But the Bertram fortune hides a secret or two which may tip the balance of power in this genteel struggle. This 1999 adaptation of Jane Austen, written and directed by Patricia Rozema, is a little more adventuresome in some ways: Rozema used excerpts from Austen's own journals and letters and adapted them to her heroine. The movie is sunny and pretty, but not terribly deep: it too obviously stacks the deck for and against its characters. But O'Connor is perhaps the most winsome of the 1990s Austen heroines.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Mansfield Park |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 19th century
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- romance (general)
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Uncle
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- not employed but independently wealthy
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Body type
- (man) fat
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- No
Is this movie based on a
- book
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