MOVIE SYNOPSIS
The Jane Austen Book Club
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, is shocked when her husband Daniel, leaves her after 20 plus years and three children. Jocelyn, her unmarried best friend, distracts herself from her unacknowledged loneliness by breeding dogs. Prudie 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 develops a yearning for one more chance at happiness. Beautiful, risk-taking Allegra, Sylvia and Daniel's lesbian daughter, has quit talking to her lover. And Grigg, 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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Directed by Robin Swicord, with Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Amy Brenneman, Kathy Baker and Hugh Dancy. Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. 1 hour, 45 mins. PG-13 (discreet sexual content, brief drugs, brief profanity). Playing at: Ritz East.
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MPAA rating:
PG-13
for mature thematic material, sexual content, brief strong language and some drug use
Cast:
Amy Brenneman; Hugh Dancy; Maggie Grace; Maria Bello; Emily Blunt
Directed by:
Robin Swicord
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Genre:
Drama; Romance Running time:
01:45
Release date:
2007
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