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Becoming Jane
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.
26 May 1978, Yorkshire, England, UK
1972, Ireland
26 March 1982, England, UK
28 December 1934, Ilford, Essex, England, UK
17 August 1968, London, England, UK
23 December 1987, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
June 22, 1975 in London, England, UK
1975, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
April 22, 1980 in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland
October 20, 1970 in England, UK
2 October 1968, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
31 August 1980, Warwickshire, England, UK
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 TracFebruary 19, 2008
Even though it looked great and was moderately engaging, something was also always missing.August 10, 2007
Becoming Jane becomes a rather ordinary, though sporadically entertaining, game of dress-up.January 12, 2008
A dull exercise in deconstructing Jane Austen's life to provide a life experience basis for her novels.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.February 11, 2008
...there's a feeling with Becoming Jane that we have seen it all before.... Many times.August 14, 2007
Not only is that a huge stretch of the facts, it makes for a dull and overly familiar melodrama.August 18, 2008
without a pretext and knowledge of the classic author, much of the richness of this movie got lostAugust 09, 2007
Austen comes off here more as stenographer than writer.August 10, 2007
Hathaway never makes us think the woman could write anything more complex than a diet book.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 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.