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10 August 2007 (USA)
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"A woman especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can." -Jane Austen more
Plot:
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman. full summary | full synopsis
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2 wins
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5 nominations
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Stumbled and fell on an excess of endings
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Rated PG for brief nudity and mild language. (edited for re-rating; was PG-13)
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120 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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USA:PG |
UK:PG |
Ireland:PG |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-7 |
Netherlands:6 |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) |
Sweden:Btl |
Germany:o.Al. |
South Korea:12 |
Hong Kong:IIA |
Portugal:M/12 |
Taiwan:GP |
Singapore:PG |
Japan:G
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The floppy mesh bonnet worn to church by an extra is the same one worn by Rosamund Pike (Jane Bennet) in Meryton when she learns Mr. Bingley has returned to Netherfield in Pride & Prejudice (2005), by Catherine Walker (Eleanor Tilney) in the garden with Catherine in Northanger Abbey (2007) (TV), and by Emily Blunt (Victoria) in The Young Victoria (2009).
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Continuity: When John Warren is bowled whilst playing cricket, the stumps are at a different angle from one shot to the next.
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Quotes:
Tom Lefroy:
[to Jane] Do you love me?
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Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Anne Hathaway/The Killers (#34.4)" (2008)
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In Airy Dreams
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I was fortunate to come across an article explaining this film. It is a speculative fiction based upon a few facts. Speculation was aroused by the fact that a woman who never married and apparently never had a love affair came to have such a deep and intelligent understanding of relationships. I shan't expand on how potentially offensive that is. But story line is based on a few simple facts. While he was in the country Jane Austen would have almost certainly met Mr Lefroy; while on a journey to see her sister she had a rather long stop off in London during which time she began writing Pride and Prejudice and there was the mention of some letters.
It started out so well; the stifling quiet of a country life broken by our future genius at work. The structure of this opening sequence was very effective. I was thinking I'm going to love this film. But there was a niggling in the back of my mind. None of the reviews had been great, but I didn't know why (I hadn't actually read any only seen the 2 ½ or 3 stars).
I continued thinking it was wonderful through most of the film. James McAvoy was beautifully intense, Anne Hathaway was solid, Maggie Smith delightfully amusing and Anna Maxwell Martin underused. There were some beautiful scenes, some so intense. For example a scene in a ball when they are both standing back to back apparently to talking other people but having a very deep conversation.
But then, as with far too many movies we moved through the climax to an ending of this story line and that story line oh and we'd better conclude this one as well and now everything is tied up in a neat little bundle.
This is a film that would have benefited from an ambivalent ending, because, aside from the fact that we know she ends up the Western World's highest selling female author the film wasn't actually about that. The film was about the journey toward it. To have left us hanging when, perhaps, she was leaving Lefroy or back in her stiflingly quiet house would have been much more effective in terms of the story and strengthened the film. It simply is not a happy ending but they tried their damned well hardest to make it one.
I'm afraid I must give this a very generous 7 rather than what could have been a deserving 8 had the film makers (or the studio or whoever the twats are that decide on these things) the courage to make this a film, not Hollywood.