The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)

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• Red L

  
  Interesting how six members of the book club's lives play out over six months - one month for each of Jane Austen's books. I had two problems - 1) the movie was too predictable and 2) I would probably have rated it one more star if I had actually read Austen's books.… More
  Interesting how six members of the book club's lives play out over six months - one month for each of Jane Austen's books. I had two problems - 1) the movie was too predictable and 2) I would probably have rated it one more star if I had actually read Austen's books. I've only read one (P&P), and it hardly had a role in the movie at all.

• Spencer S

  
  Much like an actual Austen novel, a group of women are changed by their relationships, defined by their sex, and smart as whips. Good for any Austen aficionado, or at least someone who's seen one of the adapted films.

• erika b

  
  I found this film so dumb. I found that the acting was not the best.

• Jason S

  
  This is a film filled with really well fleshed out characters but with a story that is a little bare. There is no real beginning and end to it but just a look into these peoples lives as they begin relationships that may last a life time. All the actresses do great jobs with the… More
  This is a film filled with really well fleshed out characters but with a story that is a little bare. There is no real beginning and end to it but just a look into these peoples lives as they begin relationships that may last a life time. All the actresses do great jobs with the roles they have been given and Dancy holds his own against all these powerful women. I haven't read any of the books of Jane Austen and this movie didn't make me want to either. But it was nice seeing them do it.

• Candy R

  
  Movie about a book club for 6 Jane Austen novels. The members of the club realise they have a lot in common with the characters in Jane Austen's books. Which helps them to make changes to their own relationships.

• Nicki M

  
  Better than I expected it to be. I have not read much of Jane Austen's stuff, (or especially liked what I did read), but I could still follow this one okay. Emily Blunt is excellent in this as an uptight French teacher - I liked the scenes between her and Kevin Zeger. I… More
  Better than I expected it to be. I have not read much of Jane Austen's stuff, (or especially liked what I did read), but I could still follow this one okay. Emily Blunt is excellent in this as an uptight French teacher - I liked the scenes between her and Kevin Zeger. I didn't personally love the ending too much, I would have liked to have seen that character go a different way, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen this yet. The rest of the cast are also good, and while I don't think I would have paid money to see this at the cinema, it is an above average chick flick and worth a rent.

• Film C

  
  really good film its funny and heart warming and you dont really need to know jane austin books to understand this movie!

• Cassie H

  
  Love It!!!

• Dean M

  
  Karen Joy Fowler's best selling tale of loss, heartbreak, confusion and pride bring together, over six months, six lives to form a book club discussing the works of Jane Austen (<i>Emma, Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion</i> and others). They're quite an… More
  Karen Joy Fowler's best selling tale of loss, heartbreak, confusion and pride bring together, over six months, six lives to form a book club discussing the works of Jane Austen (<i>Emma, Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion</i> and others). They're quite an interesting bunch... and they all love Elizabeth and Darcy! With its superb ensemble cast, this is fun watch.

• Rachel F

  
  This movie was spectacular! It has all these little stories that inter-weave to create the big story. That's what makes it so great, it's like 4 stories in one and everyone was brilliant!

• Mason W

  
  What a very good ensemble cast in this film. The Jane Austen Book Club is about a group of friends that start a book club specifically on Jane Austen novels. Each has a special connection with the books and the plots around them. Watch how a group of friends that begin this group for… More
  What a very good ensemble cast in this film. The Jane Austen Book Club is about a group of friends that start a book club specifically on Jane Austen novels. Each has a special connection with the books and the plots around them. Watch how a group of friends that begin this group for a recent friend's depression from a divorce to a big hit that changes all of them...check this out!

• Julie B

  
  This was bad. Really bad. But better than no movie on the plane, I suppose.

• Jennifer X

  
  Made me seriously consider taking up reading Jane Austen again, despite the fact that I was bored to tears after the first few chapters of Persuasion (causing me to turn to the movie, which was amazing). One of the more highly anticipated movies of the year and it totally, totally met… More
  Made me seriously consider taking up reading Jane Austen again, despite the fact that I was bored to tears after the first few chapters of Persuasion (causing me to turn to the movie, which was amazing). One of the more highly anticipated movies of the year and it totally, totally met my expectations. Emily Blunt is my hero.

• Walter M

  
  [font=Century Gothic]In "The Jane Austen Book Club," Prudie(Emily Blunt) is understandably upset at her husband(Marc Blucas) reneging on a promise to take her to Paris, so instead she attends a Jane Austen film festival at a local movie theatre where she meets… More
  [font=Century Gothic]In "The Jane Austen Book Club," Prudie(Emily Blunt) is understandably upset at her husband(Marc Blucas) reneging on a promise to take her to Paris, so instead she attends a Jane Austen film festival at a local movie theatre where she meets Bernadette(Kathy Baker, taking the Olympia Dukakis part) who likes weddings so much she has been married six times. Bernadette invites her new friend to join a Jane Austen book club she is forming to distract two friends of hers from recent heartbreak. Jocelyn(Maria Bello), a dog breeder, has a favorite dog who just died while Sylvia's(Amy Brenneman) husband(Jimmy Smits) just left her for another woman. Sylvia's daughter Allegra(Maggie Grace) moves back home to take care of her mother while joining the book club. The circle is closed when Jocelyn meets Grigg(Hugh Dancy, who was born to act in a Jane Austen movie), a tech support expert, who has never read a Jane Austen novel but will give it a try...[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]"The Jane Austen Book Club" is a pleasant diversion about the joy of reading in a hectic world(notice all the cell phones in the opening credits) that also takes a shot at gender roles, especially with the two subplots concerning older women and younger men. Not only women can get a kick out of Jane Austen while not only men enjoy and write science fiction. And it is cool that Ursula K. Le Guin gets so many mentions, even though I did not like the one book of hers that I read - "The Dispossessed." In fact, the movie is thankfully very geek positive by casting the charming Hugh Dancy as a geek, defying stereotype. I especially liked that Grigg assumed the Jane Austen novels were structured like a science fiction book series like the Baroque Cycle or the Earthsea Series.[/font]

• Panta O

  
  [color=red][b][size=5]The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)[/size][/b][/color] [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/28/1668528.jpg[/img] [color=darkred][b][i]U ovom filmu èiji je scenario pisan po knjizi Karen Joy Fowler, grupa ljubitelja literature Jane Austen… More
  [color=red][b][size=5]The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)[/size][/b][/color] [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/28/1668528.jpg[/img] [color=darkred][b][i]U ovom filmu èiji je scenario pisan po knjizi Karen Joy Fowler, grupa ljubitelja literature Jane Austen se susreæe jednom meseèno da diskutuju knjige koje imitiraju ?ivot koji ?ive. Svako u grupi je u razlièitoj fazi ?ivota: Sylvia (Amy Brenneman), koju je mu? napustio posle 20 godina braka i njena æerka Allegra (Maggie Grace), kojoj je potrebna devojka, Bernadette (Kathy Baker) koja se venèala tek pre 6 meseci , dok Jocelyn (Maria Bello) ima jedino vezu sa svojim psima. Ovoj se grupi pridru?uju Prudie (koju izvanredno glumi Emily Blunt), uèiteljica koja je nesretna u braku i koja ?eli zapoèeti aferu sa uèenikom i Grigg (Hugh Dancy), jedini mu?karac u grupi koji do tada nije proèitao nijednu knjigu Jane Austen, jer je uvek èitao nauènu fantastiku! [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1175178/photo_02.jpg[/img] THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB je film u kojem je gluma ono ?to izdvaja film. Ovo je delo koje vas jednostavno tera da se lepo oseæate kada budete izlazili iz bioskopa... ?armantno re?iran i elegantno montiran, pravi praznik za oèi i u?i. [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1175178/photo_23.jpg[/img] Ovoga puta 7-10 je ocena koja bi mo?da mogla biti i malo veæa... [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1175178/photo_12.jpg[/img] [/i][/b][/color]

• Andreia C

  
  it was actually pretty good

• Deb S

  
  Well, it's official: it's a chick flick, by all means. You can tell by just the premise: a group of woman (and one man), gather to read all of the Jane Austen books and learn about life and love at the same time. But this one is thoroughly enjoyable, a delight to watch.… More
  Well, it's official: it's a chick flick, by all means. You can tell by just the premise: a group of woman (and one man), gather to read all of the Jane Austen books and learn about life and love at the same time. But this one is thoroughly enjoyable, a delight to watch. While it won't rank in the films of the century or anything, it will please women for years to come. The whole movie is filled with tender scenes, such as the one where one of them is telling her girlfriend about something that happened a long time ago with a mentally handicapped boy that she will always feel guilty about, or the one when a woman and her ex-husband must come together again because their daughter is hurt, or when the teacher and her student arrange a meeting and she is looking at him across the street and can only think of her husband. I also thought the romance between Grigg and Jocelyn in the movie was especially sweet. I loved the neediness, the intimacy. I loved watching it unfold exactly as you know it was going to.

• Yinalí R

  
  Very well done.

• Daniel P

  
  <i>Six months. Six novels. Six members.</i> <p>Completely unexpectedly, I absolutely adored this film. Here's my criticism first of all; the ending is simply *too* much - far too sappy in a film which mostly avoids the usual 'chick-flick' pitfalls. The… More
  <i>Six months. Six novels. Six members.</i> <p>Completely unexpectedly, I absolutely adored this film. Here's my criticism first of all; the ending is simply *too* much - far too sappy in a film which mostly avoids the usual 'chick-flick' pitfalls. The basic concept - six people who join a club to read and discuss the works of Jane Austen find their lives paralleling that of the characters in the novels - is contrived and relies on co-incidence a couple of times. It's basically a harmless piece of entertainment that's an easy watch. But other than that, I was sold. <p>The exceptional cast really helps to suspend your disbelief here. How do I love them? Let me count the ways... Maria Bello, in my opinion one of the most undervalued, underrated actors working in the US today, is luminous as Jocelyn. Amy Brenneman (who plays Sylivia, Jocelyn's sister and actually bears an uncanny resemblance to Maria Bello) is excellent in what is, overall, probably the most unlikeable character. Hugh Dancy, as sole male member of the club (and therefore love interest) Grigg putts in another solid performance. Emily Blunt plays the appropriately stuck up Prudie with gusto (although her accent is a little wobbly). Biggest surprise of all though, is Maggie Grace, showing that there is a lot more to her than Shannon in <i>Lost</i> - she is wonderfully warm and also quite stunning, and her scenes shine - here's hoping she gets further deserving roles in the future. <p>There are some very funny lines here, and some clever insights; a surprising amount of effort seems to have gone into the characters considering its lite-lit origins as a 'supermarket' bestseller. And the addition of Aimee Mann on the soundtrack automatically raises this half a star. One of the greatest compliments I can give is that it actually made me want to re-read some Jane Austen, something I never thought I'd want to do after having to do a paper on <i>Mansfield Park</i> in college.

• Nicolas K

  
  I somehow get this feeling that the books were so much better than the movie about a Austen book club.

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