A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
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- 3 wins & 6 nominations
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Did you know
- TriviaDame Maggie Smith is a patron of the Jane Austen Society.
- GoofsThroughout the film, Jane wears costumes almost 20 years ahead of the other characters. At the ball scene, she is the only one in short sleeves and an empire waist- all the others are dressed as fits the period, which is 1795. Presumably, this was to make Jane more recognizable to popular audiences more familiar with the empire style dresses her later characters wore.
- Quotes
Tom Lefroy: What value will there ever be in life, if we are not together?
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Jane wants to marry for love
Today Jane Austen is recognized as one of the greatest writers in the English speaking world. Not so in 1795 when this story takes place and she's a young woman who wants to marry for love something unheard of in those days.
Jane's middle class parents have a suitable match for her. Dull Laurence Fox who has some family connections to some of the landed gentry in the Great Britain of George III. But Jane sets her sights on James McAvoy, a wild Irish lad and both the wild and the Irish are objected to in equal parts by parents James Cromwell and Julie Walters.
Anne Hathaway who does a wonderful job playing all kinds of bright and eager young women is a bright and eager Jane Austen. In an age when women tended to the sewing and weren't supposed to have opinions, she has them by the wagon load. No one, least of all her parents will tell her whom she is to love and marry.
As for McAvoy, he's a lawyer and a wild child who likes to have a bit of fun and delights in slumming at the grog houses and even getting into prize fights. Those matches were long before the Marquis of Queensbury set down any rules as you'll see.
The passion does burn bright between the two, but as we know Jane never did marry and died relatively young. Why is what you see the film for.
Hathaway and McAvoy will charm you as Hathaway goes on her life mission in Becoming Jane.
Jane's middle class parents have a suitable match for her. Dull Laurence Fox who has some family connections to some of the landed gentry in the Great Britain of George III. But Jane sets her sights on James McAvoy, a wild Irish lad and both the wild and the Irish are objected to in equal parts by parents James Cromwell and Julie Walters.
Anne Hathaway who does a wonderful job playing all kinds of bright and eager young women is a bright and eager Jane Austen. In an age when women tended to the sewing and weren't supposed to have opinions, she has them by the wagon load. No one, least of all her parents will tell her whom she is to love and marry.
As for McAvoy, he's a lawyer and a wild child who likes to have a bit of fun and delights in slumming at the grog houses and even getting into prize fights. Those matches were long before the Marquis of Queensbury set down any rules as you'll see.
The passion does burn bright between the two, but as we know Jane never did marry and died relatively young. Why is what you see the film for.
Hathaway and McAvoy will charm you as Hathaway goes on her life mission in Becoming Jane.
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- Language
- Also known as
- Chuyện Tình Của Jane
- Filming locations
- Higginsbrook, Trim, County Meath, Ireland(Steventon rectory)
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Box office
- Budget
- $16,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $18,670,946
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $972,066
- Aug 5, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $37,311,672
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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