Mansfield Park (2pc)

Mansfield Park (2pc)
by David Giles

Mansfield Park (2pc)
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Actor: David Buck, Giles Ashton, Robert Burbage, Samantha Bond, Sharon Beare
Director: David Giles
Cinematographer: Chris Wickham
Cinematographer: Trevor Wimlett
Editor: Stan Pow
Producer: Betty Willingale
Writer: Jane Austen
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 261 minutes
Release Date: 2000-07-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: BBC Warner
Studio: BBC Warner

VHS Movie Reviews of Mansfield Park (2pc)

Movie Review: Fabulous for the Purist!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Excellent adaptation. I dislike, very much, when a teleplay strays from the story you already know and love. It disturbs me greatly when a story is so rushed. This story is not so rushed and allows the imagination to play along. I am so happy that I heeded to the 5 star reviews instead of the 1 stars. Hero and heroine are not especially handsome, but are very normal and fine looking to be sure.

Movie Review: Review of Mansfield Park
Summary: 5 Stars

I cannot say enough about the artistic excellence of this DVD! I love Jane Austen anyhow, but this BBC production was simply outstanding. I love Sylvestra Le Touzel! She is so exquisitely refreshing and played her part so well. I cannot understand why she has not appeared in other films. What a sweet actress with great ability! I cannot see how anyone could be Fanny Price any better!

Nicholas Farrell was outstanding, as indeed were Anna Massey, Bernard Hepton, Angela Pleasence and others.

I have seen this at least twice thus far.

Movie Review: Horrendous in every way
Summary: 1 Stars

If you are thinking of watching this film, go drop something very heavy on your foot. The experience with distract you more and pain you less.

All about this mini-series is awful. Acting, costumes, wigs, casting, cinematography, portrayal of the characters - all were worse than I have ever seen or could have imagined.

The 20-plus brainless snobs who have given this series a 4-5 star review are not the enlightened literate ones, as they would like you to think. They are soulless philistines who will review anything awful as good, hoping that the rest of us, who accurately judge a horror as such, will then ascribe to them some greater depth of feeling and artistic sense.

Don't be fooled. The is a plodding, mindless production whose characters manage to take a plot that withstood the last 200 years, and put it in peril of surviving the tedious 3 hours of this series.

Movie Review: Mansfield Park
Summary: 5 Stars

A true BBC drama, filled with love, mystery and wonder. A delight to watch all the characters interact and find their way. Not a disappointment.

Movie Review: Ok, just ok...
Summary: 2 Stars

I loved the book, just liked this movie. True to the book, but the movie was long and poorly made. For fans of the book only. If you have not read the book you will not like this movie. The film making is not the best in the world but is does the job of telling the story. I think that Sylvestra did a good job of portraying Fanny. A little different, when she cries she goes a little overboard, but I think that was how Fanny was intended to be.

Summary of Mansfield Park (2pc)

In 1983, the BBC made this 261-minute miniseries from Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park. Austen explores the well-tread theme of class distinction and the triumph of love, but Fanny Price (Sylvestra Le Touzel) is an original Austen creation. Fanny, from a large and poor family, is taken into the home of her wealthy uncle and aunt, the stoic Sir Thomas Bertram (Bernard Hepton) and the childlike Lady Bertram (Angela Pleasence, daughter of actor Donald). Also residing at the posh Bertram mansion are the oldest son, irresponsible Tom (Christopher Villiers), distant Julia (Liz Crowther), and the kindly Edmund (Nicholas Farrell).

If you can get past Le Touzel's odd mannerism of making little chopping movements with her open-palmed hand for emphasis, this is a faithful adaptation of the novel. It's much slower than Northanger Abbey and lacks some of the passionate drama of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, but it still depicts a strong yet very kind heroine who stands up for what she believes in. When popular philanderer Henry Crawford (Robert Burbage) actually falls for and proposes to Fanny, she rejects him, much to the surprise and disdain of the Bertrams--except, of course, for our hero Edmund. For trivia buffs: Jonny Lee Miller, who plays young Charles Price (one of Fanny's brothers), has the role of Edmund Bertram in the 1999 theatrical version of Mansfield Park. --N.F. Mendoza

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