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I saw Mansfield Park last night. Another Jane Austen movie. Delightful. Harold Pinter played Stir Thomas Bertram, the wealthy patriarch and reigning head of a country estate. His poor sister-in-law's daughter comes to live with his family. Austin kept the world outside her novels, but in this movie, his West Indies interests are identified as slaves and this becomes a minor plot device. Fanny in the book is a bit wimpy, but they filmmakers used excerpts from early Austen letters to spice up the character and give her spunk. Like much of Austen's stories, this one could be subtitled "the economics, politics and sociology of marriage in early 19th century Britain."
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