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Writer:
Gwyneth Hughes (written by)
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Release Date:
3 February 2008 (USA) more
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Plot:
In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband. | add synopsis
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2 wins more
User Comments:
Beautifully done! more (5 total)

Cast

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Samuel Roukin ... Harris Bigg

Olivia Williams ... Jane Austen
Greta Scacchi ... Cassandra Austen
Imogen Poots ... Fanny Knight
Phyllida Law ... Mrs. Austen
Pip Torrens ... Edward Austen Knight
Harry Gostelow ... Rev. Charles Papillon

Tom Hiddleston ... Mr. John Plumptre

Hugh Bonneville ... Rev. Brook Bridges

Tom Goodman-Hill ... Mr. Lushington MP
Adrian Edmondson ... Henry Austen
Sylvie Herbert ... Mme. Bigeon

Jack Huston ... Doctor Charles Haden
Jason Watkins ... Rev. Clarke
Sally Tatum ... Anna Lefroy
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90 min
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Fun Stuff

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The blue-striped dress with long sleeves worn by a housemaid at Chawton Cottage is the same costume worn by Gwyneth Paltrow (Emma Woodhouse) at Hartfield in Emma (1996), by a guest at the Towers in the opening scene of "Wives and Daughters" (1999), and by Mali Harries (Ann Rood) for her wedding in Byron (2003) (TV). more
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Jane Austen: [reads to Cassandra from first draft of Persuasion] More than seven years were gone since this little history of sorrowful interest had reached its close;
Jane Austen: She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige others.
Jane Austen: She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! alas! she must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
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Version of Becoming Jane (2007) more
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Drowsy Maggie more

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15 out of 25 people found the following comment useful.
Beautifully done!, 15 February 2008
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Author: saltlakefun74 from United States

I really loved this movie. I have read a biography or two about Jane Austen and this movie seemed to me much more accurate than Becoming Jane. Olivia Williams gave a brilliant performance as Jane. I also liked Imogen Poots as Fanny. The actors who were her brothers Edward and Henry were good too. I really liked the guy who played Mr. Haden too.

I have enjoyed this much more than the new adaptations of her novels on Masterpiece Theatre except for Northanger Abbey. Mansfield Park and Persuasion were OK but not great and I don't know how good Sense and Sensibility is going to be.

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