Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey was adapted for television in 1986 by the A&E Network and the BBC. Northanger Abbey is the story of a young woman, Catherine Morland, who is invited to Bath with family friends, the Allens, for the waters at Bath will help Mr. Allen's gout. Catherine has been quite sheltered all her life, escaping only by reading Gothic novels, and so is delighted to go to Bath. Mrs. Allen introduces Catherine to the Thorpe family, including an older girl, Isabella, who befriends Catherine. The girls have bonded over their love of similar novels, when their brothers... arrive. James falls in love with Isabella, a hardened flirt. Likewise, John goes after Catherine, who does not like John half so much as John likes himself. Catherine is in love herself, however, with a quirky young minister, Henry Tilney, whom she met at a dance. Catherine befriends Henry's sister, Eleanor, and goes on many outing with the two siblings, after their brother, Frederick, comes to Bath.
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| Release date: | 2000 |
| Directed by: | Giles Foster |
| Runtime: | 90 Minutes |
| Screenplay by: | Maggie Wadey |
| Adapted from: | Northanger Abbey |