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: Drama. Starring Maria Bello, Hugh Dancy, Amy Brenneman and Emily Blunt. Directed by Robin Swicord (PG-13. 104 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete movie listings ...

Please don't call "The Jane Austen Book Club" a chick flick. That label, tossed off to describe movies by, about and for women, is usually used in the pejorative sense, to dismiss by-the-numbers ...

All hail the power of Jane. According to Robin Swicord's kind-hearted and unabashedly bookish ensemble film, the works of Jane Austen can: 1) Make men frisky. 2) Make women burst into sobs. 3 ...

The Jane Austen Book Club is built around the six-member Central Valley/River City all-Jane-Austen-all-the-time book club, organized by Jocelyn, an unapologetic arranger of other people's lives.

Bernadette (Kathy Baker) starts a book club devoted to Austen’s work as a way of cheering up her circle of friends, who are all mourning various losses: dog-breeder Jocelyn (Maria Bello), bereft over ...

And the love letters to Jane Austen just keep on coming. Members of 'The Jane Austen Book Club' meet to discuss their favorite author in Robin Swicord's film. Earlier this year, we got the ...

Pride and Prejudice holds the record for being adapted more times than any other Austen novel, with the earliest significant ...

It’s been a while since we profiled a local book club, but we’re back at it. We asked coordinator Marge Critcher about the Northern Baltimore County reading/study group that’s part of the ...

One character in “The Jane Austen Book Club” describes the author’s novels as chick-lit that most men would enjoy if they gave it a chance; similarly, the film is a “chick flick” guys ...