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If you like 80s movies, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, etc... then you'll LOVE this movie. This movie is an 80s film made in the new millennium. People that don't like this movie don't understand what the director was trying to do. He was trying to capture the spirit of the 80s for our time. He even used Ally Sheedy, one of the classic 80s actresses!! This movie is just as good as the best 80s teen movies!!!! I doubt teens now could appreciate it. They're too busy watching SAW or Gossip Girl. But for those of you who appreciate the 80s this film is a real treat. The main actor, Spencer Breslin, is incredibly talented. It's amazing how convincing he is copying the mannerisms of a 40 year old. There's few teen actors out there who could pull it off. Cuba Gooding Jr. is HILARIOUS! I'm not really a fan of his but in this film he is fantastic. Don't miss this film!!!

This film is so totally unfaithful to Jane Austin's original novel that it should not be ALLOWED to be called Mansfield Park!!!!! I don't believe a film has to be utterly faithful to the novel it is based on. But it should at least be faithful to the spirit of the original book. This film actually INSULTS the novel it is based on, taking moral and virtuous characters in the book and turning them into lewd, disgusting caricatures on the screen. The heroine of the story, Fanny Price, is meant to be the model of a pure, upright woman. She is supposed to be the embodiment of honor and duty and decency. In the film she mouths-off to her family, the people who raised her, supported her, and introduced her to a better life. Jane Austin's Fanny Price would rather DIE than show such disrespect to the family that cared for her. Not a SINGLE character is portrayed faithfully. It is PAINFULLY obvious the liberties the director takes with the story were taken to increase the sex appeal of the story. She introduces a whole trashy element to the plot line which is quite honestly an insult to Jane Austin's legacy. Someone who HATED Jane Austin could not make more of a mockery of this story. And then to introduce the whole issue of "the evils of slavery" into the film is even more ridiculous!! There is one mention, one sentence, in the entire book which vaguely mentions slavery. I am sick to DEATH of hearing that issue harped on. Directors seem to think that just by mentioning "the evils of slavery" it will give their film depth. The ORIGINAL story already has depth without bring up such a played-out issue as slavery. I think the director was trying to cover up how much she BUTCHERED Jane Austin's story by bringing up slavery. Don't insult Jane Austin's memory by watching such a travesty of a film.