Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), November 24th, 1999
1/3 The story of "Mansfield Park" is credited to writer Jane Austen. And that's fitting - except not in the way one would expect. This romantic drama is not so much an adaptation of Austen's novel as it is a novelization of her life.
Writer-director Patricia Rozema used Austen's book - her third - as the foundation for the story. She augmented it with material gleaned from Austen's teenage journals and letters and then overlaid a patina of contemporary politics. The result is a story about a feminist writer who is two centuries ahead of her time.
It's well-acted, with Australian Frances O'...
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