Mansfield Park Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Patricia Rozema
Genres: Comedy Drama, Romance
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Freely adapted from a novel by Jane Austen, this period drama is set in the early 1800s, as a girl named Fanny (Hannah Taylor Gordon) is being raised by loving but desperately poor parents. Wanting a better life for Fanny, they send her away to live with her aunts, high-minded Mrs. Norris (Sheila_Gish) and drug-addicted Lady Bertram (Lindsay_Duncan), who share an estate called Mansfield Park. Fanny joins the family at Mansfield Park, which includes Lady Bertram's husband Sir Thomas (Harold_Pinter), who made his money in slaves and West Indian plantations; Sir Thomas's son Tom (James_Purefoy), an alcoholic; Tom's intelligent younger brother Edmund (Jonny_Lee_Miller); and his two sisters, Julia (Justine_Waddell) and Maria (Victoria_Hamilton). Fanny soon makes friends with Edmund, though she's shown little respect by the rest of the family. In time, Fanny grows to adulthood (now played by Frances O'Connor) and gains skill and poise as a horsewoman while developing her skills as an author. When the stylish but secretive siblings Henry and Mary Crawford (Alassandro_Nivola and Embeth_Davidtz) arrive at Mansfield Park, romantic sparks begin to fly; the two sisters fight over Henry, while Mary is soon engaged to wed Edmund -- to the disappointment of Fanny, who has fallen in love with him. Mark Deming, Rovi
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