
Firelight
1998

For everyone who loved "Emma" and "Sense & Sensibility" comes the comedy Jane Austen loved best.
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.

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.
Frances O'ConnorFanny Price
Jonny Lee MillerEdmund Bertram
Alessandro NivolaMr. Henry Crawford
Hannah Taylor-GordonYoung Fanny
Lindsay DuncanMrs. Price / Lady Bertram
James PurefoyTom Bertram
Sheila GishMrs. Norris
Harold PinterSir Thomas Bertram
Victoria HamiltonMaria Bertram Rushworth
Hugh BonnevilleMr. Rushworth
Justine WaddellJulia Bertram
Embeth DavidtzMary Crawford
Sophia MylesSusan "Susie" Price
Bruce ByronCarriage Driver
Amelia WarnerTeenage Fanny
Charles EdwardsYates











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I have always liked Jane Austen’s novels and have read most of them multiple times. Similarly, I am okay with. Scriptwriters taking small liberties with the stories, meaning I don’t dislike it just because of the changes. However, as I watched this adaptation, I found myself not liking it as much as I had other versions. I had to think about why, because I thought a couple of the performances were better than average and the sets and costumes were fine. It seems there was no rhyme or reason for some of the changes. Events or spoken lines occurred at different times than I expected, or a different person said it, and even at least temporary changes in personality of characters occurred a couple of times. It didn’t reach the level of me giving up on the movie or contemplating a dismal rating here, but it was enough to leave my mentally scratching my head and vaguely thinking it could have been better.

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