The Australian actress Frances O'Connor is a true find. She's as beautiful as the young Barbara Hershey, with a stare that's pensive yet playful, and she puts us in touch with the quiet battle of emotions in Fanny.
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Portland OregonianDiana Abu-Jaber
Portland OregonianDiana Abu-Jaber
Piquant, playful, and, in many ways, just as appealing as blockbusters such as "Pride and Prejudice."
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Boston GlobeJay Carr
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Stylish and arrives at a satisfying cumulative weight, even if it isn't Austen pure.
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Miami HeraldCurtis Morgan
Miami HeraldCurtis Morgan
The latest and loosest -- in the saucy sense of the word as well -- adaptation of (Austen's) sly comedies of uppercrust manners.
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New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
O'Connor plays Fanny with an appealingly direct, unflinching gaze.
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San Francisco ExaminerWalter Addiego
San Francisco ExaminerWalter Addiego
What's on the screen may not be a letter-perfect Mansfield Park, but something true to its spirit.
There's something more than a little perverse about taking one of the most timid, self-effacing heroines in English literature and turning her into a paragon of modern free-spirited womanhood.