Mansfield Park (2007) (TV)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Iain B. MacDonald

Writer:

Maggie Wadey (written by)

Release Date:

27 January 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

At age 10, Fanny Price is sent by her destitute mother to live with her aunt and uncle, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram...

Plot Keywords:

Uncle | Clergyman | Aunt | Family Relationships | Horse Riding

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Julia Joyce	...	Young Fanny
Jemma Redgrave	...	Lady Bertram
Douglas Hodge	...	Sir Thomas Bertram
Maggie O'Neill	...	Mrs. Norris
Tara Berwin	...	Young Maria
Lucy Hurst	...	Young Julia
Zachary Elliott-Hatton	...	Young Tom
Greg Sheffield	...	Young Edmund
Billie Piper	...	Fanny Price
Blake Ritson	...	Edmund Bertram
James D'Arcy	...	Tom Bertram
Michelle Ryan	...	Maria Bertram
Rory Kinnear	...	Rushworth
Catherine Steadman	...	Julia Bertram
Hayley Atwell	...	Mary Crawford

Runtime:

120 min (including commercials) | Finland:88 min (excluding commercials)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Finland:K-3

Filming Locations:

Newby Hall, Skelton on Ure, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Company:

Company Pictures

Trivia:

The white muslin dress with yellow overdress Michelle Ryan wears during the scene in which Sir Thomas asks Maria if she wants to marry Mr. Rushworth is the same gown Kate Winslet wears as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995) during the picnic scene, and a farmhouse servant wears in Eroica (2003) (TV).

Movie Connections:

Version of Mansfield Park (1999)

Soundtrack:

Tythe Pig

Awful. Appalling.

I'm no Jane Austen purist but why make a film like this if you have nothing to say.

Billie Piper was so wrong for the part it is difficult to know where to begin-wrong personality,modern make-up,completely wrong hair (there is no way a young lady of her age would have romped around in public with her hair loose and unbrushed like that),she didn't seem particularly meek nor put-upon by the family and I didn't understand why everyone seemed to think of her as particularly saintly or kind.

The picnic(substituted for the ball) was so low-budget it was embarrassing to watch and missing out the Portsmouth section completely destroyed the point of the piece (as well as losing scenes which could have added a gritty counterpoint to that oh-so-claustrophobic pink sitting room.)

To those responsible:-If you haven't the imagination (even the budget doesn't matter so much as the imagination) to do something meaningful with an adaptation please don't pretend to be producing Jane Austen.

It was about 10% Mansfield Park and 90% nothing much at all

PS Edmund was very good