- Release date: 2007
- Runtime: 106 min
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Starring: Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman ... See all
- Director: Robin Swicord
- Plot: Explores Austen's adage that general incivility is at love's essence. Sylvia's husband dumps her for another woman, so Bernadette and Jocelyn organize a book club to distract her. They recruit... Read more
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Delicious
Dec 12, 2007
david-beukes - imdb.com
Dec 12, 2007david-beukes - imdb.com
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
Very nice! Sensable AND sensitive
Nov 15, 2007
bopdog - imdb.com
Nov 15, 2007bopdog - imdb.com
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
Pleasant Jane Austin Compels One to Read
Nov 13, 2007
marino_gaspar - yahoo.com
Nov 13, 2007marino_gaspar - yahoo.com
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
jane austen book club
Oct 26, 2007
marybridgetwelch - yahoo.com
Oct 26, 2007marybridgetwelch - yahoo.com
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
Book a showing of this very worthy film, you will not be disappointed
Oct 11, 2007
Amy Adler - imdb.com
Oct 11, 2007Amy Adler - imdb.com
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
Getting in touch with my inner Austen.
Oct 11, 2007
Blueghost - imdb.com
Oct 11, 2007Blueghost - imdb.com
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
3 women and we loved it
Oct 11, 2007
anais.henry - yahoo.com
Oct 11, 2007anais.henry - yahoo.com
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
Austen Book Club
Oct 10, 2007
letsbookthejob - yahoo.com
Oct 10, 2007letsbookthejob - yahoo.com
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
Jane would be PROUD!
Oct 09, 2007
lilbrn_eyedgirl - yahoo.com
Oct 09, 2007lilbrn_eyedgirl - yahoo.com
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
Jane Austen in California
Oct 08, 2007
Red-125 - imdb.com
Oct 08, 2007Red-125 - imdb.com
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
Critics Reviews
film-finder.com
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
Baltimore City Paper
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
eFilmCritic.com
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
roanoke.com
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
Reeling Reviews
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
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2008-02-04
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2008-01-16
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
Brenneman joins 'Club'
jsonline.com –
2007-10-04
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

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