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A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.

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Becoming Jane sounded like a great idea. A biography of Jane Austen told in the style of one of her books, with Anne Hathaway cast as the young author. The actress was an excellent choice. Her command of the language, her intelligence, and doe-eyed beauty would be perfectly suited for the etiquette, clever outbursts, and period costumes such a role would surely require. In that sense, thankfully, the filmmakers did not fail, as Hathaway makes good on our expectations. The script, unfortunately, does not, somehow forgetting that Austen was actually a real person. Instead, TV writers Kevin Hood and Sarah Williams and Kinky Boots director Julian Jarrold truss up their heroine so tight, she all but disappears, relying instead on audience foreknowledge of Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility to provide any sort of connection with the movie at all.

Writers giving short shrift to a fellow writer in her own story. Surely Austen herself would enjoy the irony.

The set-up for the story is that young Jane is next in line amongst her sisters to be married. With elder Cassandra (Anna Maxwell Martin, Bleak House) engaged to a young priest who has been under tutelage to the girls' father (James Cromwell, The Queen), it's up to Jane to pick a proper suitor to settle down with. Her mother (Julie Walters, a.k.a. Mrs. Weaseley in the Harry Potter movies) feels that it's of particular import that Jane marry into money, as the family barely survives on what Mr. Austen makes at their local parish. Resident money maven Lady Gresham (Dame Maggie Smith) has a nephew she's ready to link to the rebellious girl, but poor Wisley (Laurence Fox) is like Lurch in a proper dressing coat, lumbering in both speech and movement.

Naturally, Jane can't marry Wisley, because she must marry for love, a principle her father has instilled in her. Like a heroine in her novels, she has been encouraged to dream, indulged in her early morning scribblings, and she's not willing to give in easily. Particularly when there are outsiders like the ghastly Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy, Starter For Ten) to secretly swoon over while outwardly declaring him detestable. Lefroy likes to drink, carouse, and even do some bare-chested boxing, and he's been exiled to the country in a kind of Victorian version of rehab. He must get his gadabout ways out of his system!

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