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Article: Cinderella liberties; Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park' gets sensible updated treatment "Mansfield Park." Rated PG-13. At the Harvard Square Cinema. 3 1/2 stars.
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- The Boston Herald
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- November 24, 1999
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Patricia Rozema's adaptation of Jane Austen's 1814 novel "Mansfield Park" turns Cinderella into a Georgian comedy. It has been criticized by some for "modernizing" Austen. But anyone familiar with Austen suspects she has always been modern, which is probably why we keep returning to her.
"Mansfield Park," which has caused more debate than any other Austen novel because of the prickly nature of its heroine, tells the story of Fanny Price. As a child, Fanny (Hannah Taylor Gordon) is sent to live with her rich aunt, Lady Bertram (Lindsay Duncan), and the domineering Sir Thomas Bertram
(playwright Harold Pinter).
Unlike Fanny's mother (also Duncan), ...