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The Jane Austen Book Club (106 minutes, at area theaters) is rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, including mental illness and infidelity, sexual content, brief strong profanity and some drug ...

But as Austen derivatives go, "The Jane Austen Book Club" is a mostly plain-Jane affair.Drawing from the 2004 novel by Karen Joy Fowler, Swicord hits on an admittedly clever -- not to mention ...

As each of the six lay siege to Austen's six novels, their lives slowly begin to mirror those of Jane's characters. With such a panorama of people continually making reference to Austen ("Emma ...

The Jane Austen Book Club falls squarely into the category of the chick flick. Although this label is rather dismissive, what it denotes is an optimistic worldview in which change, no matter how ...

The movie equivalent of a toenail-painting session, this adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler’s best seller centers on a group of unhappy women (Kathy Baker, Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Amy Brenneman ...

By Gillian Dunn "You don't have to know books to be in the club." This is the tagline to "The Jane Austen Book Club," a romantic drama written and directed by Robin Swicord. Swicord herself is no ...

“The Jane Austen Book Club” is the best film I’ve seen so far this year. The ensemble acting is a wonder to behold, and two of the stalwarts, Brenneman and Bello, can be seen together again ...

Robin Swicord is the writer and director of the new film The Jane Austen Book Club. She talks about being one of a relatively few female directors in Hollywood — and what it's like to make the ...

The Jane Austen Book Club is based on Karen Joy Fowler’s 2004 best-selling book by the same name. The movie stays mostly true to the novel, with the greatest diversion in Prudie’s plotline.

My producer John Calley read the novel “ The Jane Austen Book Club ” and brought it to me because he had read a screenplay of mine called “ The Jane Prize ” about a dysfunctional family of ...

PBS Books Readers Club welcomes international best-selling author Gill Hornby to discuss her novel ...