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Mansfield Park (1999)
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Writer/director Patricia Rozema looks beyond Jane Austen's third novel for inspiration and uses the author's own letters and journals to beef up this cleverly constructed and lively update. Frances O'Connor dazzles as Fanny Price, plucked from poverty and sent to live with her wealthy relatives on the Mansfield Park estate. There she must choose between true love and social duty. Slave-trading, lower-class life and contemporary sexual mores help to make Rozema's bracing rumination on class hypocrisy and social hierarchy a compelling revision of traditional costume drama. Purists may complain, but this effervescent version of Austen's least appealing work is never dull and honestly earns its emotional payoff. AJ
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Running time
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107mins
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Country of origin
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UK / US
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Genre
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Period Drama
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Patricia Rozema, from the novel by Jane Austen
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Theatrical distributor
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Buena Vista
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UK cinema certificate
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15
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UK cinema release date
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March 2000
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