
“For everyone who loved "Emma" and "Sense & Sensibility" comes the comedy Jane Austen loved best.”
Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.
Release Date: 11/12/1999
Runtime: 112 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Patricia Rozema
Budget: $11.0M
Revenue: $4.8M
Companies: HAL Films, BBC Film
Countries: United Kingdom
Peter McGinn
I have always liked Jane Austen’s novels and have read most of them multiple times. Similarly, I am okay with. Scriptwriters taking small liberties with the stories, meaning I don’t dislike it just because of the changes. However, as I watched this adaptation, I found myself not liking it as much as I had other versions. I had to think about why, because I thought a couple of the performances were better than average and the sets and costumes were fine. It seems there was no rhyme or reason for some of the changes. Events or spoken lines occurred at different times than I expected, or a different person said it, and even at least temporary changes in personality of characters occurred a couple of times. It didn’t reach the level of me giving up on the movie or contemplating a dismal rating here, but it was enough to leave my mentally scratching my head and vaguely thinking it could have been better.
Mr. Henry Crawford

Frances O'Connor
Fanny Price

Jonny Lee Miller
Edmund Bertram

Alessandro Nivola
Mr. Henry Crawford

Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Young Fanny

Lindsay Duncan
Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram

James Purefoy
Tom Bertram

Sheila Gish
Mrs. Norris

Harold Pinter
Sir Thomas Bertram

Victoria Hamilton
Maria Bertram Rushworth

Hugh Bonneville
Mr. Rushworth

Justine Waddell
Julia Bertram

Embeth Davidtz
Mary Crawford

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