When spirited young woman, Fanny Price is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns 'their' ways, she also enlightens them with a wit and sparkle all her own.
This Mansfield Park becomes a kind of romanticized gloss -- an imaginative grad-student thesis that melds author and character.
– Eleanor Ringel Gillespie,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Despite its brazen politics, Mansfield Park never goes giddily amok as promised.
– Kevin Maynard,
Mr. Showbiz,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
While this version plays somewhat fast and loose with the original story, and even more so with the heroine's character, it is still much more Jane Austen than not.