Becoming Jane Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Julian Jarrold
Genres: Drama
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Events from the life of the author Jane_Austen inspired this romantic historical drama, which speculates of a romance that may have had a significant impact on her life and work. Twenty-year-old Jane Austen (Anne_Hathaway) is the daughter of Rev. Austen (James_Cromwell), a minister who looks after a flock in a small rural community in Southern England with his wife (Julie_Walters). While her older sister, Cassandra (Anna_Maxwell_Martin), is engaged to be married, Jane resists her family's efforts to match her up with Mr. Wisley (Laurence_Fox), the wealthy but dull nephew of Lady Gresham (Maggie_Smith), a minor member of the British nobility. Jane has the heart of an artist, and hopes to distinguish herself as a musician or a writer, though her parents don't think much of her prospects. When Jane meets Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy), a young man her own age, she's intrigued; while he scoffs at her writing style, he clearly sees she has talent, and is eager for her to learn more of the larger world by exposing her to more daring literature and modern pastimes such as boxing. As Tom begins to court Jane, she finds herself increasingly attracted to this poor but keenly intelligent man, though she soon realizes her own ideas about love and marriage are sometimes at odds with the conventions of the society in which she lives. Mark Deming, Rovi
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