Starring: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, James Cromwell, Julie Walters, Maggie Smith
Directed by Julian Jarrold
Rated PG
Released March 2007
Jane Austen is not to everyone’s taste; personally, I railed against studying her at school. But years later, when I read Pride and Prejudice of my own accord and not because I was forced to by a school curriculum, something clicked and I finally got it. Her writing crackles with subtle irony and incisive wit, has endeared her to countless girls and women (and even some men!), and her popularity has led to the BBC and Hollywood’s many adaptations of her well-loved books.
So it is in some ways inevitable that eventually the lens would turn to focus on Jane herself.
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