June 10, 2010 - #26/100
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Near the beginning of the movie, Sylvia's husband dumps her for another woman. So, Sylvia's two friends Bernadette and Jocelyn decide to organize a book club in hopes of keeping her mind occupied on other things. Bernadette manages to convince Sylvia's daughter Allegra to join the club, as well as a random woman named Prudie (Emily Blunt), who happens to be a young teacher. Jocelyn runs into a man named Grigg (Hugh Dancy), and he decides to join the book club, as well. It isn't until later on that we figure out that Grigg mostly joined in hopes of getting to know Jocelyn better. So, there are five women and one man, making six total. There are six Jane Austen novels. Therefore, the club decides to to read one novel each month, meet up, and discuss what they have read. Along with reading the novels, the viewer realizes complications amongst each person's life. For example, Prudie is thinking about cheating on her husband with one of her students, Jocelyn is oblivious to Grigg's attraction and instead focuses on trying to get Grigg and Sylvia to date, and Allegra is constantly having relationship issues. Can any of Jane Austen's wisdom from any of her six novels provide insightful advice to these five women and one man? If you aren't an avid fan of Jane Austen, then this movie can be very confusing to you. I, however, am and avid fan. Overall, I thought that the movie was pretty good. I especially enjoyed it near the end when they managed to use Austen's novel Persuasion and apply it to their real life situations. It shows that Austen's novels do actually provide insightful advice to its readers. The only thing that I didn't care for very much in this movie was Sylvia's daughter, Allegra. Her character got on my nerves. Other than that, I enjoyed watching this movie.
I gave this movie 8/10 stars on imdb.com.
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