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| Northanger Abbey (BBC, 1986) | 
 enlarge | Director: Giles Foster
Actors: Katharine Schlesinger, Peter Firth, Robert Hardy, Googie Withers, Geoffrey Chater
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  120 reviews
Sales Rank: 13093
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 90
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DE2273D
ISBN: 1419810626
UPC: 794051227324
EAN: 9781419810626
ASIN: B0007OY2P8
Theatrical Release Date: 1987
Release Date: April 19, 2005
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Product Description
A tale of intrigue adventure and romance this enchanting dramatisation captures the spirit and wit of Austen's classic novel. The setting is eighteenth- century Bath a society of decadence and deceit into which Catherine Morland arrives bursting with freshness integrity and a passion for macabre Gothic novels. In a time when materialism not love governs marriage Catherine's head is full of fantasy and fiction of maidens being abducted to sinister castles and heroes riding to the rescue on white horses. When romantic Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral home Northanger Abbey a dark mystery starts to unfold that makes her blood run cold. Are her fantasies coming true? What does the brooding General Tilney want from her and will the truth destroy her chance for love...?Running Time: 90 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 794051227324
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Jane Austen goes Gothic in this darkly dramatic rendering of her Northanger Abbey, a novel that wasn't published until after her early and sudden death. Austen pokes fun at her peers in this story, in which her heroine, Catherine Morland (Katharine Schlesinger), is hopelessly addicted to macabre romance novels that wreak havoc on her imagination. She comes from a large, but loving family, and she's taken, as a companion, to the decadent society of Bath. There, she meets the duplicitous Thorpe siblings, Isabella (Cassie Stuart) and John (Jonathan Coy), and the kindly Tilney sister and brother, Eleanor (Ingrid Lacey) and Henry (Peter Firth). The Tilneys also have an elder brother, the snobbish soldier Frederick (Greg Hicks), and an oddly eerie father, General Tilney (Robert Hardy). Needless to say, all this provides plenty of fodder for fantasies and Catherine comes up with many, even imagining all sorts of evils on a visit to the Tilney family home, Northanger Abbey. The soundtrack is more than a little melodramatic, but it's best to think of it as a humorous touch rather than a serious, punctuating one. --N.F. Mendoza
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| Customer Reviews: Read 115 more reviews...
 See it more than once before you decide July 20, 2008
It's true that it isn't anything like what you usually seek when you get a Jane Austen film. So the first time I saw it I did find parts a bit tasteless and disturbing. But it's a movie I've watched many times. For greatest satisfaction I find it best to take it on its own terms. I think some probably give it a negative review simply because it is very, very different from what they expect. But after forgetting expectations and just watching it as any other film, you may feel very differently. Some key scenes (such as the confrontation between Henry Tilney and his father) would benefit from greater development. The end I find rushed. Overall a film I enjoy watching.
 Choose a different version! April 29, 2008
I adore most BBC productions but this film was absolutely horrid! Although the casting was appropriate, the production and music make the film almost embarrassing to watch.
Avoid at all cost April 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A horrible movie of this great Austen novel. Bad performances, awful music and cliche acting. Don't buy it.
 Enjoyed this DVD April 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We enjoyed watching this version of Northanger Abbey. It takes you back to a more civilized time! Would definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys period pieces.
 Good Book....not so good movie April 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie was directed in a very weird fashion. The characters were awkward and the lines seemed cheesy. The weirdest part of all was the music, which was very much modern and not of the time period of the story. This pretty much ruins movies for me. I really enjoy this story though. But there is a newer 2007 version which I think does a much better job of telling the story and making you fall in love with the characters. Plus, the music is very fitting.
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