Masterpiece Theatre: Mansfield Park
by Iain B. MacDonald
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Actor: Billie Piper, Blake RitsonDirector: Iain B. MacDonald
Brand: WGBH HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WGBH Boston
Product features:
- In one of Austen s most complex plots, Billie Piper (Doctor Who, The Ruby in the Smoke) stars as Fanny Price, who goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park. Fanny navigates a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house, while her cousin Edmund Bertram (Blake Ritson, Inspector Lynley Mysteries) remains her stalwart confidant. Also starring Jemma Redgrave (Bram
DVD Reviews of Masterpiece Theatre: Mansfield Park
DVD Review: What a contrast?
Summary: 2 Stars
I have a book of the script for Mansfield Park (1999).
I found this version at a real contrast in which Billie Piper who is at home
in Dr. Who is really out of place and never seems to comb her hair.
In fact the hair styles in this version are completely out of character for 1820
in a manor house?
The plot shapes up differently for Sir Thomas with no mention of any affair
in the Indies with his black slave mistress.
Fanny never goes back to her family in this version either.
I ,now, think that neither movie does this famous novel justice.
In spite of the many flaws in this version I liked
the movie better than some modern versions of period novels
that I have seen.
DVD Review: One of my favorite movies!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my favorite version of this Jane Austin book. It's a very fun watch!DVD Review: Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
If you enjoy Jane Austen, This is a great movie. So much insight into life in England so many years ago. DVD Review: Cute and clean as Jane Austen works should be
Summary: 4 Stars
I have to admit that it's cinematography wasn't as well done as the previous Mansfield Park productions, but it had a wholesome cute nature to it that made it superior in my mind to the 1999 Frances O'Conner version.
For die hard Austen fans, it definitely does not follow the novel, but at least there isn't sexual pictures, lesbian insinuations, or illicit material in it as was evidenced in the 1999 production.
In this version, the director must have been interested in portraying a greater dichotomy between Fanny's class and her upper class cousins than in keeping with period fashion.
For instance, Fanny looks like a wild, modern young woman in this version with her relatively-short-hair always down instead of kept up like the ladies of the time. If they were going to leave her hair down to prove a point of her difference and disregard for the proper style of the day, then they should have at least had her hair be the proper length that it would have been in those days. Thomas Bertram had hair practically the same length that Fanny had, and he is a man.
Also, in this version, there is a considerable amount left out concerning the Price family and the activities within the Bertram household, as well as many of the character details of the Crawfords... which the 1999 version is better at including.
There also is an awkward mention of the slavery that Sir Bertram is involved in that seems more thrown in as a ditch effort to one-line the abolitionist thought of the time. Yet, I still prefer it to the vulgar drawings of explicit nature in the 1999 version.
All in all, this one is better suited for family audiences than the 1999 version, but is less adherent to the novel than any of its predecessor films.
DVD Review: Jane Austen enthusiast.
Summary: 4 Stars
As a Jane Austen fan, I have now completed my collection of videos of her works. Oddly enough, I have never actually read the books, just viewed the videos (I actually have 2 versions of "Pride & Prejudice.") Amazon was quick to deliver the videos of ""Mansfield Park"" and "Northanger Abbey"" at a reasonable price. This is a painless method of getting such items without leaving my home.
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In one of Austen's most complex plots, Billie Piper (Doctor Who, The Ruby in the Smoke) stars as Fanny Price, who goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park. Fanny navigates a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house, while her cousin Edmund Bertram (Blake Ritson, Inspector Lynley Mysteries) remains her stalwart confidant. Also starring Jemma Redgrave (Bramwell) as Fanny?s observant aunt.General DVDs
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