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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Julian Jarrold
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Actors:
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Joe Anderson,
Lucy Cohu,
Eleanor Methven,
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor,
Jessica Ashworth,
Michael James Ford,
Anne Hathaway,
James McAvoy,
Julie Walters,
James Cromwell,
Maggie Smith,
Anna Maxwell Martin,
Laurence Fox,
Ian Richardson,
Leo Bill
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Duration:
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121 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)104
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Plot Summary:
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A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her fiction with a childlike Irishman.
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Jane Austen , the chick flick
Who knows if this film has much bearing on what actually went on in Jane Austen's little-documented early life? I still enjoyed it thoroughly, especially the acting. There are the usual suspects such as Maggie Smith and Julia Walters, doing what they do best. Anne Hathaway as Jane acquits herself well . But the revelation is James McAvoy, who brings both a raffish energy and a vulnerability to the role of Jane's lover.
10 stars
This could become my favourite film, loved it, loved it and LOVED IT.
Yes I’m a Jane Austin fan, read the books (over and over a zillion times) and wore the t-shirt (muslin trimmed with a silk ribbon of course) but that doesn’t mean to say I’ll go for any old rubbish labelled “Jane Austin”. There is far too much tripe out there selling itself as ‘Austin’ the latest series of Jane Austin atrocities from STV are testament to that but this isn’t one of that ilk, this breathes new life into Jane Austin and you felt her spirit.
I have read much of the criticism levelled at this movie (beginning to think I was watching something else) and I have to ask do folks get this is just a film of a given duration. People are taking things a little ser...
Becoming Jane
Claudia PuigIf one were to fuse the literary sensibility of Jane Austen with the fanciful imaginative license of Shakespeare in Love, what would emerge would likely be the charming tale Becoming Jane. Though it's grounded in more actual history than the very fictional Shakespeare in Love, Becoming Jane is centered on an imagined romance between the novelist (Anne Hathaway) at 20 and an intriguing young Irishman named Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy). The tale is based on suppositions of Austen historians and authors who have gone through her remaining letters. Still, some Austenites question the existence of a passionate love affair involving the eloquent author who published only six novels during her short life and never married. But, as far as esca...
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