Mansfield Park - 1999 - 6/10
Poor sparrow Fanny is invited to live with wealthier relatives at a young age.
She grows into a beautiful and intelligent woman. Marriage bait.
Then, as now, a lot of men don’t want no woman who’s too smart for her own britches.
And one with no fortune, no dowry?
Fanny is a wry observer, commentator, but still a back row student.
Producers attempt to “modernize” Austen with righteous stances on slavery.
Save for Harold Pinter, entire cast lacks charisma, lacks chemistry.