Becoming Jane (2007)
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Historical, Romantic Comedy, Writers, Romances, Authors
Starring: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory
Screenwriter: Sarah Williams, Kevin Hood
Producer: Graham Broadbent, Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae
Composer: Adrian Johnston
DVD Info
Release:
Feb 12, 2008
Blu-Ray Features:
- Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Uncompressed - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - Spanish
- Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary
- Deleted Scenes
- Featurette - DISCOVERING THE REAL JANE AUSTEN
- Pop Up Facts - BECOMING JANE Pop Up Facts & Footnotes
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Reviews
Even though it looked great and was moderately engaging, something was also always missing.
...there's a feeling with Becoming Jane that we have seen it all before.... Many times.
A dull exercise in deconstructing Jane Austen's life to provide a life experience basis for her novels.
An den to 'heis barethei [to story] tis alles ena ekatommyrio enniakosies peninta ennia hiliades triakosies eikosi dyo fores poy to 'heis ksanadei (i, an den to 'heis ksanadei), magkia soy kai kali diaskedasi, prodomenos de tha bgeis.
You'll enjoy it if you're the artistic, romantic type who can be seated for 120 minutes without CGI or anything getting blown up.
Jane Austen did not live the life of Elizabeth Bennett, but even if she had, there was no reason to be this bland in presenting it.
An enjoyable appetizer, albeit for a meal that one could argue already has far too many courses.
The squeaky clean love story of Jane Austen fails to make hay of either women's liberation or the miracle of creative writing, sticking to lush estates and courtly costume finery instead
Fails to capture either the sprightly spirit and poignant pathos of its subject's famous works.
Becoming Jane takes a stab at being a historical romance in the vein of Shakespeare in Love, but something key is missing.
A smart film about manners, money and marriage, "Becoming Jane" offers a fictional glimpse at the all-too-brief life of author Jane Austen.
The sole pleasure I got was in gazing at the fancy costumes and taking in the lush grounds of the snobby Lady Gresham's estate.
Becoming Jane may fudge the facts, but it finds the more compelling emotional truth.
There's something refreshingly spare and rough-hewn about this big-screen experience.
If you're a Jane Austen fan, your sense and sensibility will demand you check this out.
The central idea in Becoming Jane is that "Pride and Prejudice" may have been autobiographical. Not a bad idea, except that the film plays more like a new adaptation of that book than as an outright examination of Austen's inspiration.
... it seems uncharitable to deny poor Jane Austen this chaste, hypothetical affair
The film's romantic conventions are not nearly so bright or inspiring as what Austen became, in her own words.
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