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starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Arthur Lazere - culturevulture.net
starstarstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstarstar Walter Addiego - SF Examiner
starstarstar Stephen Hunter - Washington Post
starstarstar Stephen Holden - NY Times
starstarstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstar Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune
starstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstar James Berardinelli - Reelviews
starstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstar Andy Seiler - USA Today
starstar Charles Ealy - Dallas Morning News
star John Anderson - Newsday

An uncommonly intelligent film, smart and amusing too, and anyone who thinks it is not faithful to Austen doesn't know the author but only her plots

- Roger Ebert

“Mansfield Park may be a genuinely bad movie, but it's a first in the history of English literature: The word ‘vulgarity’ can now be associated with Jane Austen

- John Anderson

Mansfield Park

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A loosely-based adaptation of Jane Austen's novel in which a poor but intelligent young girl is sent to live with wealthy relatives. Frances O'Connor, Jonny Lee Miller, Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, Harold Pinter, Lindsay Duncan, Sheila Gish, James Purefoy, Hugh Bonneville, Justine Waddell, Victoria Hamilton. Director: Patricia Rozema (1999, PG-13)

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