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Becoming Jane
Based on the true story of the early life of Jane Austen, a well-known writer, who was a smart and beautiful girl, the thing that leads her father to search for a suitable and rich man to marry, in order to save her a good life, but she falls in love with a young Irish lawyer named Tom Lefroy, the thing that makes her struggle against saving her love or leaving it.
23 December 1987, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
1977, Dublin, Ireland
June 22, 1975 in London, England, UK
10 May 1977, Beverley, East Yorkshire, England, UK
27 January 1940, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 August 1968, London, England, UK
1992, Dublin, Ireland
31 August 1980, Warwickshire, England, UK
1960, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
January 12, 2008
A dull exercise in deconstructing Jane Austen's life to provide a life experience basis for her novels.
August 09, 2007
Austen comes off here more as stenographer than writer.
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.
February 11, 2008
...there's a feeling with Becoming Jane that we have seen it all before.... Many times.
August 18, 2008
without a pretext and knowledge of the classic author, much of the richness of this movie got lost
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 14, 2007
Not only is that a huge stretch of the facts, it makes for a dull and overly familiar melodrama.
February 19, 2008
Even though it looked great and was moderately engaging, something was also always missing.
August 10, 2007
Hathaway never makes us think the woman could write anything more complex than a diet book.
August 10, 2007
Becoming Jane becomes a rather ordinary, though sporadically entertaining, game of dress-up.
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 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.