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Not only is that a huge stretch of the facts, it makes for a dull and overly familiar melodrama.
Hathaway never makes us think the woman could write anything more complex than a diet book.
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.
Becoming Jane becomes a rather ordinary, though sporadically entertaining, game of dress-up.
Austen comes off here more as stenographer than writer.
The movie goes down easy, but there's a thin line here: is this an homage or a parasite?
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.
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
without a pretext and knowledge of the classic author, much of the richness of this movie got lost
Even though it looked great and was moderately engaging, something was also always missing.
The characters and events are simply too familiar and the ground too well trodden to evoke much surprise or wonder. Still, it sure is nice to look at.
...there's a feeling with Becoming Jane that we have seen it all before.... Many times.
Anne Hathaway makes a fine Jane Austen.
Hews frustratingly to the middle of the road.
A dull exercise in deconstructing Jane Austen's life to provide a life experience basis for her novels.
A witty, winning Austen bio for tweens and older.
An den to 'heis barethei [to story] tis alles ena ekatommyrio enniakosies peninta ennia hiliades triakosies eikosi dyo fores poy to 'heis ksanadei (i, an den to 'heis ksanadei), magkia soy kai kali diaskedasi, prodomenos de tha bgeis.
You'll enjoy it if you're the artistic, romantic type who can be seated for 120 minutes without CGI or anything getting blown up.
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