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Mansfield Park (Original title)
Dates: 1999 (Copyright), 31 March 2000 (Release)

Countries: USA, United Kingdom

Director: Patricia Rozema

Synopsis: Based on the classic novel by Jane Austen, which tells the tale of a young girl, Fanny, who is sent at the age of ten to live with her aunts at Mansfield Park, a country mansion. Treated as little more than a servant, Fanny eventually grows up a rather tomboyish young woman with aspirations to be a writer. When she meets brother and sister Henry and Mary Crawford, a match is agreed between the handsome Henry and Fanny, although Fanny is in love with childhood friend Edmund, one of the children she has grown up with.

Genres:
Period drama, Romance
Releases
Date: 25 December 1999Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby DigitalRuntime: 112 mins Length: 10094 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 31 March 2000Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 112 mins 10 secs - Length: 10094 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Buena Vista International (UK)
Date: 25 September 2000Country: United KingdomRelease type: Home ViewingFormat: VHS Videocassette - Colour - SoundRuntime: 107 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Credits (128)
©/Presented by: Miramax Films, ©/Production Company: HAL Films, Presented by: BBC Films, Presented in association with: Arts Council of England, Supported by the: National Lottery through the Arts Council of England, Logo: English Heritage, Executive Producer: Trea Hoving, Executive Producer: David Aukin, Executive Producer: Colin Leventhal, Executive Producer: David M. Thompson, Executive Producer: Bob Weinstein, Executive Producer: Harvey Weinstein, Producer: Sarah Curtis, [Producer]: Elinor Day, Line Producer: Cathy Lord, Associate Producer: Allon Reich, Executive in Charge of Production: Sara Geater, Script Executive (Miramax HAL Films): Christian Colson, Production Manager: Hilary Benson, Production Co-ordinator: Julia Bennett, Production Co-ordinator (Miramax HAL Fi): Laura Madden, Financial Controller (Miramax HAL Films): Richard Bennett, Production Accountant: Susanna Wyatt, Location Manager: Bill Darby, Location Manager (Additional): Greg Jordan, Post-production Supervisor: Tania Windsor Blunden, Literary Researcher: Frances B. Armstrong, Assistant Director (1st): Mary Soan, Assistant Director (2nd): Mark Layton, Assistant Director (Crowd 2nd): Candy Marlowe, Assistant Director (3rd): Alexander Oakley, Assistant Director (2nd Unit 1st): Ken Tuohy, Script Supervisor: Diana Dill, Casting: Gail Stevens, Casting (Crowd ADR Group): Marcella Riordan, Written by: Patricia Rozema, [Screenplay]: Maggie Wadey, Based on the novel by: Jane Austen, Director of Photography: Michael Coulter, 2nd Unit Director of Photography: Chris Plevin, Aerial Photography: Flight Logistics, Hover-Cam Ltd, Aerial Photography Pilot/Operator: Philip George, Aerial Photography Pilot/Operator: John Jennings, Mike Parker, Aerial Photography Cameraman: Gifford Hooper, Camera Operator: Philip Sindall, Steadicam Operator: Peter Cavaciutti, Steadicam Operator: Jan Pester, Focus Puller: Julian Bucknall, Focus Puller (2nd Unit): Chas Bain, Clapper Loader: James Bloom, Clapper Loader (2nd Unit): Barney Piercy, Gaffer: Terry Edland, Camera Grip: Richard Broome, Stills Photographer: Clive Coote, Digital Visual Effects: The Computer Film Company, CFC (Digital Visual Effects Supervisor): Tim Webber, CFC (Digital Visual Effects Producer): Drew Jones, CFC (Senior Digital Compositing Artist): Robert Duncan, Tom Debenham, CFC (Digital Paint Artist): Alex Paymen, CFC (Digital Scanning/Recording): Steve Tizzard, Special Effects: Evolution FX, EvFX (Special Effects Supervisor): Richard Van Den Berg, EvFX (Special Effects Technician): Matthew Granger, EvFX (Special Effects Technician): Mark Meddings, EvFX (Special Effects Technician): Alan Hawes, Gary Cohen, Editor: Martin Walsh, Edited at: De Lane Lea, Production Designer: Christopher Hobbs, Art Director: Andrew Munro, Assistant Art Director: Damon Earnshaw, Tom Wales, Set Decorator: Patricia Edwards, Tom's Painting/Original Slave Drawings: Christopher Hobbs, Draughtsman: Sarah Tozer, Scenic Artist: Alice Milburn Foster, Scenic Artist: Steve Mitchell, Prop Master: Barry Gibbs, Costume Designer: Andrea Galer, Assistant Costume Designer: Sarah Touaibi, Wardrobe Mistress: Cynthea Dowling, Make-up (Designer): Veronica Brebner, Make-up (Additional Artist): Paul Gooch, Hair/Make-up Artist: Astrid Schikorra, Hair/Make-up Artist: Tamsin Dorling, Hair/Make-up Artist: Helen Smith, Liz Tag, Title Sequence: Kemistry, Film Opticals: General Screen Enterprises, Music Composed by: Lesley Barber, Musician (Glass Harmonica): Alisdair Malloy, Musician (Hurdy Gurdy): Nigel Eaton, Musician (Percussion): Frank Ricotti, Music Conducted by: Nick Ingman, James Shearman, Orchestra Leader: Gavyn Wright, Additional Orchestration: Nick Ingman, James Shearman, Music Supervisor: Bob Last, Orchestral Contractor: Isobel Griffiths, Music Engineered by: Steve Mclaughlin, Nick Wollage, Music Recorded at: Air Studios, Choreography: Jane Gibson, Assistant Choreography: Jack Murphy, Production Sound Mixer: Peter Glossop, Boom Operator: Shaun Mills, Sound Maintenance: Stephen Gilmour, Re-recording Mixer: Ray Merrin, Graham Daniel, Re-recorded at: Shepperton Sound, Supervising Sound Editor: Glenn Freemantle, Post-production Sound: Reelsound Limited, Dialogue Editor: Max Hoskins, Foley Artist: Andie Derrick, Foley Artist: Peter Burgis, Foley Editor: Miriam Ludbrook, Laboratory Facilities: DeLuxe (London), Dialect Coach: Andrew Jack, Dialect Coach (Additional, ADR): Penny Dyer, Gregory De Polnay, Animals Supplied by: Timbertops, Horsemaster: Emma Hepple, Filmed at: Ealing Studios
Cast (28)
Embeth Davidtz (Mary Crawford), Jonny Lee Miller (Edmund Bertram), Alessandro Nivola (Henry Crawford), Frances O'Connor (Fanny Price), Harold Pinter (Sir Thomas Bertram), Lindsay Duncan (Lady Bertram/Frances Price), Sheila Gish (Mrs Norris), Victoria Hamilton (Maria Elizabeth Bertram), James Purefoy (Tom Bertram), Hugh Bonneville (Mr Rushworth), Justine Waddell (Julia Frances Bertram), Hannah Taylor Gordon (young Fanny), Talya Gordon (young Susan), Bruce Byron (carriage driver), Elizabeth Eaton (young Maria), Elizabeth Earl (young Julia), Philip Sarson (young Edmund), Amelia Warner (teenage Fanny), Charles Edwards (Yates), Sophia Myles (Susan), Hilton McRae (Mr Price), Anna Popplewell (Betsey), Danny Worters (boy with bird cart), Gordon Reid (Doctor Winthrop), Jack Murphy, Peter Curtis, Emma Flett, Wendy Woodbridge (ballroom dancer)