Becoming Jane
Becoming Jane is a biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman, a charming but penniless apprentice lawyer who gives her the knowledge of the heart she needs for her future career as a novelist.
2 October 1968, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
7 April 1934, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1972, Ireland
17 August 1968, London, England, UK
22 February 1950, Smethwick, West Midlands, England, UK
31 October 1965, Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]
31 August 1980, Warwickshire, England, UK
28 December 1934, Ilford, Essex, England, UK
June 22, 1975 in London, England, UK
August 14, 2009
With a spot-on accent and altogether charming performance, Hathaway makes another convincing statement that she has grown, as a woman and as an actress.
August 18, 2008
without a pretext and knowledge of the classic author, much of the richness of this movie got lost
August 10, 2007
Hathaway never makes us think the woman could write anything more complex than a diet book.
February 11, 2008
...there's a feeling with Becoming Jane that we have seen it all before.... Many times.
August 10, 2007
Becoming Jane becomes a rather ordinary, though sporadically entertaining, game of dress-up.
August 14, 2007
Not only is that a huge stretch of the facts, it makes for a dull and overly familiar melodrama.
August 09, 2007
Austen comes off here more as stenographer than writer.
August 10, 2007
This never rises above a date movie, but it's functionally literate (the lovers have some pleasant banter about the realistic merits of Tom Jones) and features a fine supporting turn from Ian Richardson.
August 22, 2008
Director Julian Jarrold (Kinky Boots) struck a unique and lovely tone, managing to maintain a conventional Merchant-Ivory type look but successfully infusing it with some rather modern humor--Hathaway and McAvoy verbally sparring like an 18th century Trac
January 12, 2008
A dull exercise in deconstructing Jane Austen's life to provide a life experience basis for her novels.
November 03, 2016
"The reality of love's disappointments enriches the film's heroine, who never married in real life, and brings a 200-year-old figure into living focus."
February 19, 2008
Even though it looked great and was moderately engaging, something was also always missing.
