Synopsis
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
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Cast
- Kathy BakerBernadette
- Maria BelloJocelyn
- Emily BluntPrudie
- Amy BrennemanSylvia
- Hugh DancyGrigg
- Maggie GraceAllegra
- Lynn RedgraveSky
- Jimmy SmitsDaniel
- Marc BlucasDean
- Kevin ZegersTrey
Recommendations
- 75
Entertainment Weekly
For a visual bonus, Hugh Dancy appears in bike shorts as the lone male Jane-ite. - 75
Chicago Tribune
Overall, The Jane Austen Book Club is an admirable mix of heady and fluffy, the kind of wish-fulfillment fantasy that needn’t make filmgoers ashamed of what they wished for. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
The entire enterprise ultimately seems designed to turn Austen into a self-help guru. - 75
USA Today
This is Austen lite, but pleasantly so. You can hardly fault a movie that fashions itself around a consummate writer whose keen sense of humor and gift for fully realized characters have resulted in countless screen adaptations. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The film's characters are lively, the women all look terrific (the guys do too, for that matter), and its many romantic story threads weave into artfully told tales of love lost and found. - 70
Variety
Cast is first-rate all around, unafraid to play up the annoying, insensitive or self-pitying aspects of their nonetheless likeable characters. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Swicord has a playful sense of humor and a good ear for dialogue, and the movie pleasantly accomplishes what it set out to accomplish. - 63
ReelViews
The film comes across like a soap opera and there are too many characters and storylines for any one of them to grab the heart and imagination. The film isn't painful but it is disappointing.
