Mansfield Park (1983)

Fabulous for the Purist!!

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. September 24, 2008

Review of Mansfield Park

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. September 20, 2008

Horrendous in every way

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. August 9, 2008

Mansfield Park

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. July 9, 2008

Ok, just ok...

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. June 18, 2008

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