3/4

Mansfield Park is a generally light and funny film which invites us to watch Fanny handle the coldness and pressure of her priggish relatives, and not only survive, but somehow prevail.

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01/01/00

3/4

Mansfield Park works because it not only comes from the novel...but also from Austen's letters and journals.

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05/26/06

N/A

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.

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07/21/05

A-

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.

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04/09/05

4/4

...busy nothings add up to motion picture somethings in one of the year's most charming films.

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05/14/03

3/5

Despite such occasional flaws...Mansfield Park is a welcome treat for Austen addicts.

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10/15/02

N/A

A powerful portrait of a determined young woman's quest to remain true to the vastness of her spirit and soul.

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03/04/02

N/A

An uneven but ultimately stirring adaptation from Canadian director Patricia Rozema.

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01/09/02

short

Rozema's thoughtful pacing and deliberately modern spin on the tale keep the rot from setting in.

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04/28/01

C

This is merely another attempt at making a high-class art film that can't come close to the spirit of the literary book it is based on.

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02/14/01

2/4

Even if you have never read Austen, you will sense that something is wrong here long before a nude scene that would have made the author hide under a table.

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01/01/00

N/A

One of the best movies of the year.

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