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Becoming Jane
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Unlike other girls of her society, where women and girls only search for a partner, in order to support them financially, Jane Austen, a young beautiful smart girl, who only wants to marry for love, as she falls in love with a young handsome Irish lawyer named Tom Lefroy, the thing that brings terrible for her with his father who needs a rich man for her.
Unlike other girls of her society, where women and girls only search for a partner, in order to support them financially, Jane Austen, a young beautiful smart girl, who only wants to marry for love, as she falls in love with a young handsome Irish lawyer named Tom Lefroy, the thing that brings terrible for her with his father who needs a rich man for her.
Actors:
Elaine Murphy,
Philip Culhane,
Guy Carleton,
Donal OFarrell,
Gina Costigan,
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor,
Leo Bill
Elaine Murphy
Philip Culhane
8 November 1978, Ireland
Guy Carleton
Donal OFarrell
Gina Costigan
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
1977, Dublin, Ireland
Leo Bill
31 August 1980, Warwickshire, England, UK
Country:
United Kingdom
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February 11, 2008
...there's a feeling with Becoming Jane that we have seen it all before.... Many times.
August 22, 2008
Director Julian Jarrold (Kinky Boots) struck a unique and lovely tone, managing to maintain a conventional Merchant-Ivory type look but successfully infusing it with some rather modern humor--Hathaway and McAvoy verbally sparring like an 18th century Trac
August 10, 2007
Hathaway never makes us think the woman could write anything more complex than a diet book.
January 12, 2008
A dull exercise in deconstructing Jane Austen's life to provide a life experience basis for her novels.
August 10, 2007
This never rises above a date movie, but it's functionally literate (the lovers have some pleasant banter about the realistic merits of Tom Jones) and features a fine supporting turn from Ian Richardson.
Times-Picayune
August 14, 2009
With a spot-on accent and altogether charming performance, Hathaway makes another convincing statement that she has grown, as a woman and as an actress.
November 03, 2016
"The reality of love's disappointments enriches the film's heroine, who never married in real life, and brings a 200-year-old figure into living focus."
August 18, 2008
without a pretext and knowledge of the classic author, much of the richness of this movie got lost
Associated Press
August 10, 2007
Becoming Jane becomes a rather ordinary, though sporadically entertaining, game of dress-up.
February 19, 2008
Even though it looked great and was moderately engaging, something was also always missing.
Ebert & Roeper
August 14, 2007
Not only is that a huge stretch of the facts, it makes for a dull and overly familiar melodrama.
August 09, 2007
Austen comes off here more as stenographer than writer.