Patricia Rozema (When Night Is Falling, I've Heard the Mermaids         Singing) uses Jane Austen's novel and the author's letters and early          journals to craft a passionate blurring of fact and fiction. Embeth Davidtz,     Jonny Lee Miller, Allesandro Nivola, Frances O'Connor and playwright Harold    Pinter star in this thematically modern period piece that upset some Austen    purists and delighted others. Rozema turns Fanny Price, the heroine of         Austen's 19th century tale, into a more confident, romantically and sexually     outgoing character--one not unlike the author herself--who seems a woman ahead Patricia Rozema---Great Britain---1999---112 mins.