Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The acting in this movie is really good.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The first and main - headache camera. Did ever cameraman heard about steady-cam device? Too fast moves, shaking, no single calm shot from stand. Example? In scene where Fanny and Edmund play badminton and Peter call them. I understand that TV movies have much lower budget than standard cinema movies, but still... there are TV movies pleasure to watch over and over. This one I couldn't stand for more than 15 minutes. Besides, choosing of actors was so poor, they simply didn't fit their characters. I feel they won't feel in their characters comfortably and play behavior of their characters so... forcibly. No speak about very bad screenplay. The version from 1999 with F. O'Connor is quite different universe. So my recommendation is - don't waste time with this version of Mansfield Park, you miss nothing. Really.

Maybe I've seen one to many period pieces recently but I found this remake to be less than interesting. Billie Piper plays role of Fanny Price and if you really like Piper than perhaps you'll like her in this role but otherwise, no. Other than cuteness, she really seems to bring nothing of note to the role. You get no feel for the character or the emotions shes supposed to be going through. This Fanny Price has no flavor. None. And perhaps its trite, but there's something about Piper's trademark bleach blonde hair with the dark eyebrows that seems totally out of place for time set of the movie. I mean, did she just run off a Dr. Who shoot and couldn't go either totally black, brown, blonde or maybe even red? The other characters are equally challenged in their roles. Since it's a made for TV rendition perhaps I'm being overly harsh but if you want to see Mansfield Park, pick up one of the other versions.

I must say that before I watched the movie I already had low expectations of it. I must also say that although I understand that book to film adaptations must have some changes I really hate it when they completely change the spirit of the book, especially when the book is a masterpiece of English literature. Why call it an adaptation? Say you're inspired by the book but not that you have adapted the book into film.Now that that rant is over, i will start with the next rant. I will not say anything about the miscasting of Billie Piper as Fanny (Maggie O'Neill as Mrs Norris and Jemma Redgrave as Lady Bertram were also I feel miscast), nor about the enormous liberties taken with the plot, nor about Fanny's hair, nor about Fanny bouncing about like a fairy, I will even hold my tongue about the actress's manicured eyebrows as these have already been covered by other reviewers. But there are so many other things that are wrong in this 'adaptation'.What I really liked about the book is how Fanny is the only constant in the story, everyone around her changes their feelings, opinions even their characters but Fanny although timid and shy sticks by her strong moral standards and shows a strength of character that surprises everyone who thought who knew her. In the movie this development is completely missing. I did not see the conflicted Crawfords almost becoming good people, I did not see Sir Thomas regretting the way he brought up his children nor did I see Edmund falling in love with Fanny. (I had to stifle a chuckle when the light shined off Fanny's messy hair and Edmund was suddenly struck with love as if shown the way by the Holy Spirit) I didn't even see the seduction progressing between Maria and Henry Crawford which is a pity as this is the only Jane Austen book that touches on infidelity.An other thing I really disliked is how they changed the characters of Mrs Norris and Lady Bertram. Mrs Norris is one of the vilest characters created by Jane Austen. She is not just an annoying, ignorant person, she controls and abuses Fanny and almost all the Bertrams psychologically in a very selfish and snide way. Lady Bertram in the book was a very stupid and lazy woman that was often infuriatingly and unbelievably aloof of everything that was going on around her. The Lady Bertram in the film was an undecided concoction that needs to be protected from the fact that her husband might be in danger in Antigua and could describe men dying at war as 'disagreeable' but has the sharpness to realise that Fanny was in love with Edmund since she was a little girl. Last things; the opening narration was just lazy, most of the acting bland.To end on a good note, i really liked the music, James D'Arcy who plays Tom Bertram is very good looking and my inner (and secret) squealing, girly, rom-com loving girl enjoyed the bit were Edmund runs after Fanny and they get together at last - although the joy was short lived when I remembered that this was supposed to be Mansfield Park.

I am happy to see other people as outraged as i am about mansfield park. It is my favorite of all the jane's (minus persuasion, northanger abby and lady susan which i haven't read yet. I haven't seen this film but i saw the other one made in '99 or something and i didn't get past the first 14 minutes. they made fanny price seem too much like jane herself and totally changed her countenance, which in my opinion is the subject of the book. Don't call it mansfield park if it isn't mansfield park!I really have to write ten lines??? thats retarded...anyway what more can i say about this ... They made fanny price (in the other movie) loud, will say what she feels no matter what and playful and she is none of those things. Defenet slap in the face.