The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)

Directors

Robin Swicord

Cast

Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Maggie Grace, Jimmy Smits, Ed Brigadier, Kevin Zegers, Marc Blucas, Catherine Schreiber, Hugh Dancy, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Lynn Redgrave, Stephanie Denise Griffin, Myndy Crist, Graham Norris, Kurt Bryant, Gwendoline Yeo, Nancy Travis, Miguel Nájera

The story

The Jane Austen Book Club is the brainchild of fiftysomething six-time divorcée Bernadette, who develops the idea when she meets Prudie, a prim, married high school French teacher in her mid-20s, at a Jane Austen film festival. The plan is to have six members discuss all six of Austen's novels (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey), with each member hosting the group once a month. Also inducted into the club are Sylvia, a librarian recently separated from her philandering lawyer husband Daniel after over two decades of marriage; her twentysomething lesbian daughter Allegra;…

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