Northanger Abbey (2007 film)
Northanger Abbey is a 2007 British television film adaptation of Jane Austens eponymous novel. It was directed by British television director Jon Jones and the screenplay was written by Andrew Davies. Felicity Jones stars as the protagonist Catherine Morland and JJ Feild plays her love interest Henry Tilney. The story unfolds as the teenaged Catherine is invited to Bath to accompany some family friends. There she finds herself the object of Henry Tilneys and John Thorpes William Beck affections. When she is asked to stay at Northanger Abbey, Catherines youthful and naive imagination takes hold and she begins to confuse real life with the Gothic romance of her favorite novels.
Seventeenyearold Catherine Morland Felicity Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morland Gerry OBrien and Julia Dearden, is a tomboy with a wild imagination and a passion for Gothic novels. Family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen Desmond Barrit and Sylvestra Le Touzel, invite Catherine to spend the season in Bath and she readily accepts. At her first ball, Catherine meets and dances with Henry Tilney JJ Feild. The following day, Catherine makes the acquaintance of the Thorpe family. She becomes good friends with Isabella Thorpe Carey Mulligan and she meets Isabellas brother, John William Beck, when she is reunited with her own brother, James Hugh OConor.John flirts with Catherine at a ball, but she is more interested in meeting with Henry and his sister, Eleanor Catherine Walker. Catherine is pressured by Isabella and John into riding to Blaise Castle, despite her having made plans for a walk with Henry and Eleanor. John assures her that he saw Henry driving a phaeton to Wick Rocks, but while Catherine is in Johns carriage, she sees the Tilneys walking along the street. Catherine asks John to stop, knowing he lied to her, but he refuses. Catherine runs into the Tilney family at the opera and makes her apologies, before planning another walk. John tells Henrys father, General Tilney Liam Cunningham, that Catherine is the Allens heir, and the General invites her to spend the day with the family. Catherine is delighted when she learns Henry and Eleanor love books as much as she does. ........
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