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  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary Six book-club members, six Austen books, and six story-lines are interwoven over six months in the busy modern setting of Sacramento, where city and suburban sprawl meet natural beauty. While the contemporary stories never slavishly parallel the Austen plots, the six characters find echoes, predictions, warnings, and wisdom about their o...

Directed By: Robin Swicord

Written By: Karen Joy Fowler, Robin Swicord

  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 46 m

The Jane Austen Book Club

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 28 Critic Reviews
61
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 19 User Ratings
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Summary Six book-club members, six Austen books, and six story-lines are interwoven over six months in the busy modern setting of Sacramento, where city and suburban sprawl meet natural beauty. While the contemporary stories never slavishly parallel the Austen plots, the six characters find echoes, predictions, warnings, and wisdom about their o...

Directed By: Robin Swicord

Written By: Karen Joy Fowler, Robin Swicord

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 28 Critic Reviews
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68% Positive
19 Reviews
29% Mixed
8 Reviews
4% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 28 Critic Reviews
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68% Positive
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29% Mixed
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4% Negative
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88
Chick Flick indeed! Guys, take your best buddy to see this movie. Tell him, "It's really cool, dude, even though there aren't any eviscerations."
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
75
The entire enterprise ultimately seems designed to turn Austen into a self-help guru.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW

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6.4
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5% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 19 User Ratings
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42% Mixed
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5% Negative
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70
Such a well-acted, literate adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler’s 2004 best seller that your impulse is to forgive it for being the formulaic, feel-good chick flick that it is.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
63
Those who know Austen novels will recognize how much each character resembles a figure in one of them. Those who do not will enjoy the amusing types. Men, this means you.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
63
The film comes across like a soap opera and there are too many characters and storylines for any one of them to grab the heart and imagination. The film isn't painful but it is disappointing.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
50
Ultimately, The Jane Austen Book Club amounts to little more than a lukewarm collection of half-realized rom-com scenarios not fleshy enough to warrant their own movie.
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38
It's almost impossible for a movie to go irrevocably wrong during the opening credits, but the ceaselessly irritating The Jane Austen Book Club does just that.
By Lawrence Toppman FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Mockingbird Pictures, John Calley Productions
Release Date Sep 21, 2007
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline You don't have to know the books to be in the club.
Website http://www.sonyclassics.com/thejaneaustenbookclub/
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Awards

Casting Society of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
GLAAD Media Awards
• 1 Nomination

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