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MANSFIELD PARK
Poverty-stricken Fanny Price goes to live with her prosperous aunt and cousins at their
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country home. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors. A BBC adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen.n
Advantages: Great acting and characterisation Disadvantages: Some wooden performances from child actors
...mother's sister, Lady Bertram, at Mansfield Park. Sensitive and shy, Fanny misses her family terribly, all the more so because her cousins, Maria and Julia, look down on her. Luckily, cousin Edmund takes care of her and she soon becomes part of the family, although always aware of her lowly position. She soon comes to care for Edmund, but his heart is won by another woman - Miss Mary Crawford - whose rascally brother, Henry, eventually falls in love ... ...always enjoyed her work and Mansfield Park, the story of a woman determined to hold out for what she wants, is one of my favourite Austen novels. It has been televised more than once; the most recent version starring Billie Piper as Fanny and shown last Christmas. The version that I am reviewing is the 1983 version, which was shown on television as a mini-series, and is very faithful to the original story. Sylvestra Le Touzel is absolutely perfect ...
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Actor(s): Bernard Hepton, Anna Massey, Angela Pleasence, Nicholas Farrell, Sylvestra Le Touzel
Director(s): David Giles
Genre: Drama - Period
Classification: Universal
Running Time: 5 hours
Video Category: Television
Plot: Poverty-stricken Fanny Price goes to live with her prosperous aunt and cousins at their country home. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors. A BBC adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen.
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Poverty-stricken Fanny Price goes to live with her prosperous aunt and cousins at their country home. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors. A BBC adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen.
