Becoming Jane is a movie directed by Julian Jarrold in 2007 and based on the book Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Spence, first published in 2003. The movie features Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith, Anna Maxwell Martin, and others.
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“The movie is better than the book”
But the book is worth reading.
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Storyline
Jane Austen is a younger daughter of the Reverend George Austen and his wife, who have yet to find a suitable husband for Jane. She aspires to be a writer, to the dismay of her mother and proud delight of her father. Thomas Lefroy is a promising lawyer with a bad reputation, which he describes as typical for people in the profession, and is sent to live in the country by his uncle to calm him down.
Movie vs Book
Year
2007
Minutes
120
Movie Rate
7.00
Source: IMDb
Year
2003
Pages
294
Book Rate
7.48
S: Goodreads
Book
Becoming Jane Austen
User polls & recommendations
“I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.”
QUENTIN TARANTINO (Filmmaker, Scriptwriter, Actor)
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