The Jane Austen Book Club

I like movies with spaceships in, preferably exploding at some point. Also shooting, sword fighting and violent death. Oh, and car chases. And if I can't have the above, then can there at least be some explicit sex please? And... Full review

I have never read Jane Austin. Although I did have a senior Librarian at the British Library, where I am a "registered" scholar-reader, crack a funny and original joke about her to me once. The joke was slow, off-the-cuff (he made... Full review

The Jane Austin Book Club is a pleasant diversion, pointing out how romance and its complications have'nt changed since Jane wrote her novels in the 19th Century. The more things change, the more they remain the same is the message. The... Full review

i thought this movie was really good and really different but i think that i will have to see the movie a few more times because it was one of those films where you need to watch it over to catch... Full review

Sylvia (Amy Brenneman) and her husband, Daniel (Jimmy Smits) have been married for a little over 20 years. But, one day, Daniel drops the big bombshells that he is seeing another woman and that he wants a divorce. Sylvia is... Full review

An enjoyable film that, for the genre it's in, was not very predictable, and in this way was a very pleasant watch. I really wasn't sure what to expect. I figured with Jane Austen's named tagged onto it it'd be... Full review

I didn't read the book so I can't compare and I have never read any of Jane Austen's books but I have seen every film based on her books as it has come out...I didn't understand who the characters in the... Full review

A group of six meet once a month for six months to discuss Jane Austen's six books: Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion. Austen's books and their lives intermingle in a creative way for... Full review

This movie would make any author proud, the movie brings back the love of reading and literature. Many people watch the movie now instead of reading the book and this movie gives you both. The stories are real and modern and... Full review

The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) was directed by Robin Swicord, who also wrote the screenplay. Thanks to movie adaptations--some great, some so-so--Jane Austen has found a wider audience than she could ever have guessed. Now, second-generation books and films... Full review

What The Jane Austen Book Club serves up most is an endless supply of heartfelt and occasionally smug reverence for Austen's canon.     If nothing else, The Jane Austen Book Club should put viewers in the mood to read - not Karen Joy Fowler's 2004 novel that inspired the movie, but Jane Austen's six novels so viewers will know what the heck the film's self-absorbed Austenites are talking about. ... Full Review

You will not be thinking about this bland movie or its one-dimensional characters. While we don't deny Zegers' lickability, this story line makes it almost impossible to sympathize with the already unlikable Prudie. ... Full Review

Then again, Austen herself focused on the moneyed, the better to gently pick at their social mores. The film probably wont send anyone hastening to the bookstore for an Austen omnibus, and should probably be taken as the cute minor literary offshoot it is, but it does satisfy a certain thirst for conversation for its own sake at the movies. ... Full Review

Bernadette recruits Prudie (Emily Blunt), a tightly wound French teacher in an unhappy marriage with a jock (Marc Blucas). There is Sylvia's daughter, Allegra (Maggie Grace), temperamentally and romantically impulsive. ... Full Review

The use of Austen's books provide a platform for chaptering, but never has a subtheme been so loosely and unimaginatively incorporated into its narrative. Screenwriter Robin Swicord ("Memoirs of a Geisha") makes an inauspicious feature directing debut seemingly allowing her cast to go wherever they please in a story that doesn't earn its results. ... Full Review

The film deals with the rights of the Queen of England and also focuses on even bigger issues. There are many who would like to see her failure as a queen, most of all the Catholics who have little sympathy... ... Full Article

Ah, there's nothing like the relief of having to choose between a number of decent possibilities, rather than grasping at straws... The Jane Austen Book Club Like any dramatic comedy that focuses on romance -- especially one that does so ... Full Article

Available on DVD and Blu-RayTM High-Def Disc February 5 with Exclusive Cast & Crew Commentary, Making Of Featurette and Deleted Scenes Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing The Jane Austen Book Club, a feel-good comedy about five women and one... ... Full Article

Characters include a couple breaking up, Sylvia and Daniel Avila (played by Amy Brenneman and Jimmy Smits, both of the NYPD Blue TV show), and their daughter, Allegra (Maggie Grace of the TV show Lost). ... Full Article

Amy Brenneman has a secret. She hasn't read Jane Austen in years. "But I watched the movies," she whispered, sotto vocce , during an interview last month at the Toronto International Film Festival. "I read 'Emma' and 'Pride and Prejudice' ... Full Article