Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.
Direction
Rozema's bold interpolation of Austen's letters and slavery critique.
Acting
O'Connor's Fanny: watchful, wounded, unexpectedly fierce.
Cinematography
Mansfield as beautiful prison—every frame breathes unease.
Director
Patricia Rozema
Frances O'Connor
Fanny Price
Jonny Lee Miller
Edmund Bertram
Alessandro Nivola
Mr. Henry Crawford
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Young Fanny
Lindsay Duncan
Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
James Purefoy
Tom Bertram
Sheila Gish
Mrs. Norris
Harold Pinter
Sir Thomas Bertram
Victoria Hamilton
Maria Bertram Rushworth
Hugh Bonneville
Mr. Rushworth
Justine Waddell
Julia Bertram
Embeth Davidtz
Mary Crawford
Sophia Myles
Susan "Susie" Price
Bruce Byron
Carriage Driver
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rozema controversially incorporated passages from Austen's personal letters and journals, making Fanny more explicitly autobiographical than in the novel.
The film's explicit treatment of Sir Thomas Bertram's Antigua plantation made it the first major Austen adaptation to confront the author's family ties to slavery.
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