Title: Northanger Abbey video review
Product review: This is one of the weirdest video adapatations of a novel I've ever seen. The novel was an early work by Jane Austen (published posthumously) so it's not as well crafted as later works. Despite the novel's weaknesses, however, even this video production does not do it justice. The heroine looks like she's on heroin, Maj. Tinley (played by the same guy who played the older doctor in "All Creatures Great and Small") is positively creepy, his son, Henry Tilney, smirks instead of smiles, the Thorpe sister is just plain ugly (I should say she's just plain plain) and the Tilney sister is a stiff. I can't remember whether other videos of this novel were available and this is the one I chose or whether there was no other choice. The only value the video had for me was it helped establish who the characters were and their relationships--before I read the book. As they say, "the book was better," and in this case, the old saying couldn't be more true.
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