SYNOPSIS

Today’s central California may be far removed from Regency England, but some things never change. We’re still every bit as preoccupied with the complexities of marriage, friendship, romantic entanglements, position, and social manners and mores as was Jane Austen at the turn of the 1800s. THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB reveals the lives of an ensemble of present-day friends through the witty prism of their literary heroine.

Six book club members, six Austen books, six interwoven story lines 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 own trajectories within Austen’s beloved narratives.

 


TRAILER


RELEASE DATE

November 16, 2007

DIRECTOR

Robin Swicord

WRITER

Robin Swicord (screenplay) & Karen Joy Fowler (book)

COMPANY

Sony Pictures Classics

GENRE

Drama, Romance

CERT

12A

RUNTIME

106 minutes

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