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Miss Austen Regrets

  • TV Movie
  • 20072007
  • TV-GTV-G
  • 1h 30m
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Olivia Williams in Miss Austen Regrets (2007)
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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.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.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.
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    • Jeremy Lovering
    • Gwyneth Hughes
    • Jane Austen(letters)
  • Stars
    • Samuel Roukin
    • Olivia Williams
    • Greta Scacchi
    • Jeremy Lovering
    • Gwyneth Hughes
    • Jane Austen(letters)
  • Stars
    • Samuel Roukin
    • Olivia Williams
    • Greta Scacchi
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    • 20User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    • Won 1 BAFTA Award

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    Olivia Williams and Imogen Poots in Miss Austen Regrets (2007)
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    Olivia Williams in Miss Austen Regrets (2007)
    Olivia Williams in Miss Austen Regrets (2007)
    Olivia Williams in Miss Austen Regrets (2007)
    Olivia Williams in Miss Austen Regrets (2007)
    Greta Scacchi, Pip Torrens, Olivia Williams, and Imogen Poots in Miss Austen Regrets (2007)
    Greta Scacchi in Miss Austen Regrets (2007)
    Hugh Bonneville in Miss Austen Regrets (2007)
    Phyllida Law in Miss Austen Regrets (2007)
    Olivia Williams in Miss Austen Regrets (2007)

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    Samuel Roukin
    Samuel Roukin
    • Harris Bigg
    Olivia Williams
    Olivia Williams
    • Jane Austen
    Greta Scacchi
    Greta Scacchi
    • Cassandra Austen
    Imogen Poots
    Imogen Poots
    • Fanny Knight
    Phyllida Law
    Phyllida Law
    • Mrs. Austen
    Pip Torrens
    Pip Torrens
    • Edward Austen Knight
    Harry Gostelow
    • Rev. Charles Papillon
    Tom Hiddleston
    Tom Hiddleston
    • Mr. John Plumptre
    Hugh Bonneville
    Hugh Bonneville
    • Rev. Brook Bridges
    Tom Goodman-Hill
    Tom Goodman-Hill
    • Mr. Lushington MP
    Adrian Edmondson
    Adrian Edmondson
    • Henry Austen
    Sylvie Herbert
    • Mme. Bigeon
    Jack Huston
    Jack Huston
    • Doctor Charles Haden
    Jason Watkins
    Jason Watkins
    • Rev. Clarke
    Sally Tatum
    • Anna Lefroy
    Nicholas Agnew
    Nicholas Agnew
    • George Hatton
    • (uncredited)
    Jo Calderwood
    • Miss Plumptre
    • (uncredited)
    Lizanne Tulip
    Lizanne Tulip
    • Fanny's Best Friend
    • (uncredited)
      • Jeremy Lovering
      • Gwyneth Hughes
      • Jane Austen(letters) (uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      The beige dress with paisley bodice worn by a guest at Fanny's wedding is the same costume Sabina Franklyn (Jane Bennet) wears at Longbourn in Pride and Prejudice (1980), Rachel Fielding (Mrs. Benson) wears in Princess Caraboo (1994), Julie Cox (Annabella Milbanke) wears to read Byron's poetry book in Byron (2003), and Freema Agyeman (Tattycoram) wears on the Marseilles wharf in Little Dorrit (2008). The same costume is also worn by an extra on the Marseilles wharf in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002).
    • Quotes

      Jane Austen: What if you do meet him

      [the right man]

      Jane Austen: and he doesn't have any money?

      Fanny Austen-Knight: But if I love him then nothing else matters!

      Jane Austen: What in heavens name gave you that idea?

      Fanny Austen-Knight: It says so in all your books.

      Edward Austen Knight: [gravely] If that's what you think they say, my dear, perhaps, you should read them again.

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      Edited from The Real Jane Austen (2002)
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    7/10
    Biographically not fully bullet-proofed but historical events are accurate
    Jane Austen's (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) last few years, gorgeously filmed and directed, just as it would be one of her own creations, with the difference that her novels end with 'happy endings', like love and marriage, whilst Austen died at 42 unmarried and depending on her family. One does wonder why Austen, whose very witty and vibrant (though social-critical) books are about women and the necessity of marriage for a social and financial security at her time, never married!?!

    This movie is apparently very closely based on the few remaining letters between Jane, her sister Cassandra and her favourite niece Fanny; an assumption of those very intimate and loving letters, a sort of a hypothesis that Jane chose not to marry of her own, by refusing several marriage proposals to be able to write and for her 'freedom'. It is a very emancipated and 21st Century feminist friendly theory. Some hard- core Austen historians still insist though, that Jane never married because, in her very youth, she refused a marriage proposal from a very rich yet ugly, old and dull man...Mr Bigg...and then she was never asked again...for her no Mr. Darcy came along.

    Therefore, biographically not fully bullet-proofed but historical events are accurate.

    Love the many quotes incorporated in the movie!

    I've never heard of Olivia Williams but I must say she earned all my admiration and will look out for her past and future works! Great actress!

    If you like BBC period dramas or even Jane Austen's novels adaptations, then you most certainly will enjoy this; a great family-movie which will inspire the interested Teenager to read Jane Austen novels...(so I hope!)
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    • Jan 14, 2012

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      • February 3, 2008 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
      • PBS (United States)
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      • Syon House, Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex, England, UK
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      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
      • WGBH
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