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| Frances O'Connor looks most becoming, holding a key close to her chest on this poster for Patricia Rozema's Mansfield Park |
The daughter of a poor family is given away as a girl to society's finer circles, where she becomes an integral but never equal partaker.
Mansfield Park is written and directed by Patricia Rozema (I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)), adapting the same-titled 1814 novel by Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility (1811).
Frances O'Connor (Kiss or Kill (1997)) looks like a Disney character in this most picturesque film, which however for this same reason will have a lot of its male audience punching out. The tone is somewhere between the funny, - which is found in rare snippets in Mansfield Park, - and the dramatic and romantic, which overtakes here in a film that hits many of the right keys but is still ultimately boring, - and too neat.
Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: Unknown
Box office: In excess of 4.7 mil. $ (North America only)
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[Mansfield Park premiered 27 August (Montréal Film Festival) and runs 112 minutes. Rozema altered much from Austen's novel for her film. Shooting took place in England, including London. The film opened #46 to a 85k $ first weekend in 8 theaters in North America, where it peaked at #19 and in 152 theaters (different weeks), grossing 4.7 mil. $. Regrettably the cost and foreign gross numbers are not made public, so it is impossible to say whether the film was a success or not. Roger Ebert gave it a 4/4 star review, translating to 4 notches over this one. Rozema returned with 4 TV movie, short and TV series credits prior to her theatrical return, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008). O'Connor returned in About Adam (2000). Mansfield Park is certified fresh at 77 % with a 6.90/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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