the bbc and the art and entertainment network should be ashamed of themselves for foist this unfortunate production onto the world . the acting be and with the exception of robert hardy a general tilney and amateurish at best and excruciatingly painful at bad . the costume be over the top and feature some truly ghoulish excess be the costume designer obsess with feather for woman hat . surely every woman in bath do not have feather in her headpiece in the early 19th century . the production value be poor and the pacing of the film make one feel it be hastily and clumsily edit at the last minute . altogether an agonizing film that i have to force myself to watch to the end . it a shame and a the producer obviously spend a lot of money on costume and location shooting . compare to emma thompson sublime sense and sensibility or the extraordinary 1995 production of pride and prejudice or the subtle intensity of 1995 persuasion and this production of ` northanger abbey surely have jane austen turn in her grave .