Mansfield Park

Pros: Biting satire, likeable and loathesome characters, with a lovely twist at the end.
Cons: I honestly can't think of any.

I have a selection of films that I think of as 'embroidery films.' These are the sort that are best ...

Pros: Acting, the look, the adaptation
Cons: Doubts about "the right man"

There is certainly a sense in which all Jane Austen's books are variations on the same slow recognition of a suitable, rich -- or at least financially better-off male -- for whom the morally superior woman seemingly destined never to marry is the...

Pros: good acting, excellent cinematography, good story overall
Cons: awkward moments and a scene that feels forced

In my discovering the works of Jane Austen, I began watching the film adaptations of those novels as well.  For the most part, they are nice period pieces which do suffer from a treatment by the studios that often pigeon-holes them as “chick ...

Pros: This is a superior production of a literary classic--guaranteed swooning fits for die-hard romantics
Cons: Hey, if you want bullets, bombs and blood, you're in the wrong section, buddy

Jane Austen movies make me weak in the knees. It happens every time…there's the lovely but misunderstood girl (Emma Woodhouse of Emma, Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and Prejudice, Cher Horowitz of Clueless) who pines after the rakish...

Pros: A good adaptation of Austen's work.
Cons: Tries at points to be too PC to the detriment of dramatic development

Fanny Price (Frances O'Connor) is the fabulously talented writer, shy girl and poor relation in this retelling of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park." Sent away by her mother from her family in Portsmouth to live with the family in Mansfield Park, she becomes...

Pros: Flush with drollery, seething with sauciness and helmed by an agile-minded - gasp - lady!
Cons: There's a graphic sketchbook full of butchered slaves that'll sicken many a tender stomach.

Fanny Price has been summoned from her cockroach-ridden seaside shanty to the dour abode of her aunt and various other starchy, melancholy souls. One is an incurable narcoleptic who is forever dozing off, watchful pug curled up on her lap, only to come...

Pros: Dialog, Scenery, Costumes, Frances O'Connor! Cinematography
Cons: It's Austen, so it's slower than glass warping, Plot, Characters are all "types."

If you're like me and you shudder when you think of the world of Jane Austen, wherein the mores and societal mandates seem ridiculous, pretentious, and boring, it seems odd that I would actually recommend this film to you. Also, it might be hard for you ...

Pros: A wickedly funny and interesting movie!
Cons: Some character development flaws.

Patricia Rozema's "Mansfield Park" is based on Jane Austen's novel, however, it is not true to Austen's book, instead Rozema has choosen passages from Austen's journals and letters, and adapted them to her choosen screenplay.

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Pros: playful adaptation
Cons: follows usual costume drama guidelines

I usually hate period costume movies. In no other genre is the pure life essence so sucked out of the movies. But, if you're going to do it, do it right. Do Jane Austen, whose natural wit and passion always seem to come through, even in the driest and...

Pros: Romantic story, engaging heroine
Cons: Disturbing scenes, some nudity. Apparently different from the book

The prim, matronly lady stands before Hollywood's finest. Tears glisten in her eyes as she whispers, "Thank you. Thank you for welcoming me into your home."

James Cameron eyes her appreciatively. "We could make beautiful...

Pros: adaptation of the novel, great acting, wonderful scenery
Cons: reminded me a little of Minnie Driver and Chris O'Donnell

So tonight I took advantage of the Michigan's free finals-week screening of the new Mansfield Park. Free always helps, right? But this time it didn't have to.

The short story: Fanny Price (Frances O'Connor), poor but intelligent heroine,...

Pros: Greatly humourous, and brings new perspective on the traditional interpretations
Cons: Takes liberties on the text, which you might find annoying in part.

I will make no claims that I am a Jane Austen fan, neither will I make any claims that I saw this movie voluntarily. This novel, as with many other students throughout time, was a part of my course at A- level, and quite fortunately really, I am...

Pros: Splendid period drama aimed at the art-house crowd
Cons: The script tackles too many social issues

In this provocative, revisionist adaptation of Jane Austen's third novel, Canadian writer-director Patricia Rozema gives her 19th century heroine, Fanny Price, much of Austen's own confidant, creative personality. Incorporating material from...

Pros: Wickedly intelligent humor, good performances.
Cons: Austen purists will be upset by the revisionist style.

Writer-director Patricia Rozema has received some heat for taking more than a few liberties in adapting Jane Austen's third novel, which is about a poor young woman named Fanny Price (Frances O'Connor as an adult) who is shipped off to live with her...

Pros: Wickedly funny, heartbreaking and entertaining.
Cons: None.

"Mansfield Park" is based on Jane Austin's third novel, as well as her own letters and early journals. And if it seems to stray too much from the original novel, it does so in such a delightful way, and with just the right modicum of...