Hopefully, you've never read Jane Austen's famous novel as this isn't it. No doubt Jane would have loved to have pumped her pages full of naked adultery, bestiality and lesbianism, though, so director Patricia Rozema has made it up to her with this revisionist version. But there's still an excellent pivotal role for the Minnie Driver-like Australian actress Frances O'Connor, who handles it sublimely well. She's Fanny, poor relation of the Bertrams of Mansfield Park, who comes to live with them but must never be treated as their equal. She falls for their youngest son (Jonny Lee Miller), but all plans are upset by the arrivals of brother-and-sister opportunists (Embeth Davidtz and Alessandro Nivola, immaculately concealing their American accents) who batten themselves on to the household. In the end, even if indirectly, Fanny proves a match for everyone. Despite its new inflammatory elements, this is all a shade dull, if quite pleasant company; the speech Miller delivers at the end, though, does contain some of the best acting of his career.