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Becoming Jane - Movie Reviews

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Studio/Distributor
Miramax Films

Director
Julian Jarrold

Screenwriter(s)
Sarah Williams, Kevin Hood

Cast
Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith

Release Date: August 3, 2007

Release: Wide
Anthony Quinn | The Independent | Rating: 2/5
This period squib purports to make a romantic disappointment of Jane Austen's youth the defining moment of her fledgling career. It derives from research into a brief attachment that the 20-year-old writer enjoyed with a swaggering young Irishman named Tom Lefroy...
Brian Orndorf | eFilmCritic.com | Rating: 4/5
The youngest of the Austen clan, Jane (Anne Hathaway) suffers from the ridiculous notion that she will marry for love and her writing will support her...
James Berardinelli | ReelViews | Rating: 2.5/4
Becoming Jane looks at the life of Jane Austen through the prism of her novels. The film is a semi-fictional biography of the esteemed author; although it incorporates people and events from her life, it also takes liberties with known events...
Roger Ebert | Chicago Sun-Times | Rating: 3/4
Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces...

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