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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09/20/07
Becoming Jane (2007)
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Reviews Counted:133
Fresh:77
Rotten:56
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Although Becoming Jane is a well-crafted period piece, it lacks fresh insight into the life and works of Jane Austen. The film focuses too much on wardrobe and not enough on Austen's achievements.
Rated: PG [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Romance, Historical, Theatrical Release, Romantic Comedy, Writers, Romances, Authors
Theatrical Release:Aug 3, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $18,602,895
Synopsis: BECOMING JANE is based on an incident in the life of the beloved writer Jane Austen, and follows the real-life romance that inspired her classic novels. Like many of her heroines, Jane (Anne... [More]
Starring: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell
Director: Julian Jarrold
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Reviews for Becoming Jane
Becoming Jane is not as good as the best Austen films, but is much better than most mainstream movies on tap.
08/01/07
Top CriticDespite the fact that this is a beautifully-shot, dryly funny period drama, some audiences might prefer to stick to the sheer escapism of Austen's fictional work, which follows a similar formula.
03/08/07
...a beautifully directed film from Julian Jarrold that draws as much strength from the depiction of the 18th-century English countryside (Ireland, actually) as from the performances of Anne Hathaway as Austen and James McAvoy as Tom Lefroy.
08/02/07
Once you admit that the Jane Austen depicted onscreen bears scant relation to any person named Jane Austen, living or dead, the film fulfills its purpose.
08/06/07
While Becoming Jane is too much of a prologue to the writing Austen, it is an impeccably crafted imagining of a young woman seeking love at a time when women were so often 'better than their circumstances.'
08/14/07
It's a charming, peaceful picture; a perfect diversion for those who like their corsets tight and confining and their romance kept behind a fence of social judgment and impossible odds.
08/03/07
The film seduces. Beautifully produced, from production design and costumes to music and performances, it's also faithful to the genteel spirit and repressed passions for which she's known.
08/03/07
Top CriticOne can only hope that Becoming Jane will inspire moviegoers to find out more about this beloved literary great. Or hopefully revisit one of her classic novels.
08/04/07
If you're a Jane Austen fan, your sense and sensibility will demand you check this out.
08/18/07
Clearly embraces the spirit of the beloved novelist.
08/06/07
. McAvoy shines in the role of a good-hearted rogue, and director Julian Jarrold ("Kinky Boots") depicts 18th-century England with a convincing less-is-more approach.
08/02/07
Neither the best nor the worst of the Jane Austen adaptations. However, nor is it likely to be remembered for very long after it passes across your eyes.
08/04/07
Anne Hathaway has learned to ease up on the mugging and let us come to her. She’s no Jane Austen, but she’s got the gumption of an Austen heroine.
07/23/07
Top CriticThe 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.
08/10/07
A finely tooled Brit-lit costumer that, like Anne Hathaway's flawless accent as the young Austen, lacks only that final convincing 5%.
03/12/07
One can appreciate 'Becoming Jane' without knowing anything about the writings of Jane Austen or the speculation about her hidden life.
08/02/07
There's something refreshingly spare and rough-hewn about this big-screen experience.
08/22/07
An evocative portrait of an artistic temperament in defiance of propriety and of how, when such things are repressed, passion and personality are revealed in acts of private ritual and public performance.
08/09/07
For realism's sake, Jarrold checks in with the usual muddy hems, misty green fields and chickens clucking underfoot. And if you’re an Austen reader you can have an okay time just playing I-Spy Pride and Prejudice...
08/02/07
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