The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)

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Sony Classics

Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Oct 5, 2007

Running Time: 106 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Maria Bello, Jimmy Smits, Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Maggie Grace, Kevin Zegers, Hugh Dancy, Lynn Redgrave, Marc Blucas

director: Robin Swicord

The Jane Austen Book Club

In Sacramento, where city and suburban sprawl meet natural beauty, the six members of the Jane Austen Book Club live through romantic hopes and disappointments, the consolations and misunderstandings of friendship, and the infinite complications of life as social beings in a complex community. The book club members need look no further than their monthly reading and discussions to find parallels with their own lives.

The Jane Austen Book Club is definitely chick lit-turned-chick flick, but an engaging script and winning performances elevate it from its cheesy TV movie-of-the-week potential.

Story

Based on the bestselling novel by Karen Joy Fowler, Jane Austen revolves around a group of friends who decide to start a Jane Austen book club, aptly named "All-Austen-All-The-Time." In the group we have: the book club's instigator, Bernadette (Kathy Baker), a free-spirited fifty-something who has been married six…