The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)

Name: The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Romance
Released: 2007-09-09
Cast: Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Maggie Grace

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EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS: The Cast of The Jane Austen Book Club Speak!

B. Alan OrangeSep 27, 2007

We got some exclusive interviews from Jimmy Smits, Amy Brenneman, Maggie Grace, Hugh Dancy, Kathy Baker and Robin Swicord

Critics Score

65%

Release Date

September 9th, 2007

Director

Robin Swicord

Writers

Robin Swicord
Karen Joy Fowler

Cast

Maria Bello
Emily Blunt
Kathy Baker
Amy Brenneman
Maggie Grace
Jimmy Smits

The Jane Austen Book Club Synopsis

As five women and one enigmatic man meet to discuss the works of Jane Austen, they find their love lives playing out in a 21st century version of her novels. Sylvia (Amy Brenneman), is shocked when her husband Daniel (Jimmy Smits), leaves her after 20 plus years and three children. Jocelyn (Maria Bello), her unmarried best friend, distracts herself from her unacknowledged loneliness by breeding dogs. Prudie (Emily Blunt) is a young French teacher, in possession of a worthy husband yet distracted by persistent fantasies about sex with another man. The many times married Bernadette (Kathy Baker) develops a yearning for one more chance at happiness. Beautiful, risk-taking Allegra (Maggie Grace), Sylvia and Daniel's lesbian daughter, has quit talking to her lover. And Grigg (Hugh Dancy), a young science fiction fan and computer whiz, seems horribly both out of place and obliviously at ease as the only man to be invited into the book circle.

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Today's central California may be far removed from Regency England, but some things never change.

We're still every bit as preoccupied with the complexities of marriage, friendship, romantic entanglements, position, and social manners and mores as was Jane Austen at the turn of the 1800s. THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB reveals the lives of an ensemble of present-day friends through the witty prism of their literary heroine.

Six book club members, six Austen books, six interwoven story lines over six months in the busy modern setting of Sacramento, where city and suburban sprawl meet natural beauty. While the contemporary stories never slavishly parallel the Austen plots, the six characters find echoes, predictions, warnings and wisdom about their own trajectories within

Austen's beloved narratives.