Product Description

Anne Hathaway, Jessica Ashworth, Tony Brown, Chris McHallem, Lucy McKennaDirectors: Julian Jarrold

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7689 in DVD
• Brand: Blu-ray Drama
• Released on: 2007-09-10
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 120 minutes

DVD Description
This film depicts the young Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) as she discovers her literary skills and her own affairs of the heart. It is loosely based on a speculative romance between her and a young Irish lawyer, Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy). The original screenplay was inspired by real events, which were chronicled in the book Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Spence. Also stars Maggie Smith.

Synopsis
The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable – marrying for love.
Naturally her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughter's future social standing. They are eyeing Mr Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match.
But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly, along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arrogance raise her ire – then knock her head over heels. Now the couple, whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense and sensibility of the age, is faced with a terrible dilemma. If they attempt to marry, they will risk everything that matters – family, friends and fortune.

Special Features
5.1 Dolby
Behind the Scenes
Regency Dance Featurette
Hair, Make-up & Costume Design Featurette
Filming the Cricket Scene
Filming the Boxing Scenes
Deleted Scenes
Theatrical Trailer
Commentary
Photogallery

Synopsis
Like her heroines, Jane Austen must choose between love and money in this romance based on the life of the author. Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada ) is the Pride and Prejudice scribe, while James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland ) is her suitor. Focusing on the novelist's early life and passionate love affair with Tom Wisely--a young aristocrat her parents are courting for her hand.

Customer Reviews

becoming
I enjoyed this movie as entertainment. We can only speculate on Jane Austen's life. We have no way of knowing what she truly was like. There are some rumors going around that Cassandra, her sister, destroyed some of her letters because she thought it might give her a bad name?

So, when you watch this movie take it as one idea of what she might have been like, but not as that is how she was. Plus knowing she never married it's a nice thought to think she was in love at least once. It's better to have loved and have lost then never to have loved at all. Although there is that other saying: what you don't know can't hurt you.

Anyhow I enjoyed it!!

Jane Austen - I don't think so!
Jane Austen - I don't think so!
Jane Austen was a deep, interesting and witty woman, one only has to read her work to see that. This film did not show the Jane that we wanted to see, it merely hinted that a love affair gone wrong made her 'become' the Jane that her fans love.
I was so disappointed with this!

I was not impressed.
It is a feast for the eyes, nothing more. The plot cannot get my praise.