You won't be disappointed!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Northanger Abbey (2007 TV Movie) is a BBC film directed by Jon Jones. The movie is based on Jane Austen's novel, which was written when she was young, and never published in her lifetime. The brilliant Andrew Davies wrote the screenplay.Because Northanger Abbey was written by Jane Austen, we can reasonably assume that it will be about men seeking wives, and women seeking husbands. In the early 19th Century, men had options, but women didn't. The situation was made worse by the fact the even rich men wanted to marry women of wealth. That meant that poor women might have to marry men they didn't love, or not get married at all. It's hard to say whether Jane Austen realized the injustice of the social system, or whether she just took it for granted. After all, that was the reality of everything she saw around her.There's a theme in the novel that reminded me of Don Quixote, written 200 years earlier. Don Quixote reads too many chivalric romances, and eventually believes that he's a character in one of those romances. Similarly, Catherine Morland (Felicity Jones), reads so many Gothic novels that she begins to believe that she's living in one. That's especially true when she is invited to Northanger Abbey, a huge, dark structure presided over by the harsh General Tilney (Liam Cunningham). Cunningham captures what I think was Jane Austen's concept of the man. General Tilney does something that goes far beyond impoliteness. We don't doubt for a minute that he would do it.Catherine is in love with her soulmate Henry Tilney, played by JJ Feild. (He's the Genera's son.) The course of true love never did run smooth, and Northanger Abbey is no exception. It's a Jane Austen novel, so you know the outcome. It's the way Austen--and director Jones--bring us from start to end that makes the movie worth seeing.I truly enjoyed this film, even though Northanger Abbey is one of Austen's less admired works. Jane Austen was a genius, and even her lesser novels are worth reading and watching in a movie.Felicity Jones is beautiful, JJ Feild is handsome, and it's a BBC production. If you love Jane Austen, you'll love this film. If you don't care much for Austen, I'd still recommend this movie.Because this film was made for TV, it works well on the small screen.

I Love BBC Dramas and films,they are so brilliant with great sets,acting,costumes and background scores.I am a period films n Dramas fanatic,I have seen so many of them and all of them are a delight to watch and my favourites.Northanger Abbey is another feather in the cap for BBC as it is a great TV film though I wish it was a little longer because I loved the film and the chemistry between Felicity Jones and J.J field.BBC just are so good at adapting the novels that even if you haven't read the book it will still be a enjoyable watch.I haven't read any Jane Austen books but I have watched all the miniseries and films based on her novels,they are just so brilliant and enjoyable.Northanger Abbey is no different and the story was very good and the acting by the main lead and Mr Tillney sister was really good.The costumes were beautiful so was the jewellary and sets,dances.BBC just do a fantastic job in recreating the Victorian era ,love u BBC.

This is a really lovely TV/film version of this book, and of course... the script is by master adapter Andrew Davies. He is just magnificent. Carey Mulligen (Bleak House, The Amazing Mrs. Prichard) is a young actress who really understands period drama, and can bring her full self to it without seeming modern. She is excellently cast as the "bad" friend of the lead. Catherine Walker gives us an excellent interpretation of the "good" friend, and JJ Field gives us the most charming Henry Tilney. He is handsome and smart and fun and good. (The stuff of a girl's dreams, as he is supposed to be.) Despite the short running time length, everything is here that needs to be here, and the costumes in this are gloriously beautiful, and tell us a lot about the character. We have only to look at the neckline of Isabella & Eleanor's dresses to know all we need to know about them. Felicity Jones as our lead Catherine is just perfect... all the right notes. I did enjoy the version done in the 1980s?... even though the fantasy sections were very modern pop-punk with music by "art of noise." It worked... but this current one will be much more enjoyed by the purists. ENJOY this masterful adaptation!

i truly loved this movie. i thought it was done and carried you along with Catherine as she fell in love with henry. i wish that it had gone into a little more detail at times, but i am sure that time restrictions played a big part in that. the actors did a good job in portraying their characters, although i found some of this disjointed as well at times, such as when henry, Eleanor and Catherine come back from their walk and the general comes down the stairs to invite her to northanger Abby, it is as if Eleanor and henry have disappeared instead of standing beside Catherine as they would have been normally, i must say i loved the way that Catherine backed henry into shrubbery as she was kissing him, although i wish they had gone into Eleanor's romance a little more. but overall i am glad i bought this movie as well.