Becoming Jane
Embodying the early life of Jane Austen, a young beautiful and smart writer, who throughout her early life, has a critical thought and lifestyle, as she only wants to marry for love, unlike other girls at that time, who only marry for being financially supported, and when she falls in love with a young handsome Irish lawyer named Tom Lefroy, everything changes.
26 March 1982, England, UK
31 August 1980, Warwickshire, England, UK
31 October 1965, Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]
1960, London, England, UK
23 December 1987, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
26 May 1978, Yorkshire, England, UK
April 22, 1980 in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland
8 November 1978, Ireland
1972, Ireland
27 January 1940, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 October 1968, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
28 December 1934, Ilford, Essex, England, UK
21 April 1979, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1960, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
7 April 1934, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1992, Dublin, Ireland
1975, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
February 19, 2008
Even though it looked great and was moderately engaging, something was also always missing.
February 11, 2008
...there's a feeling with Becoming Jane that we have seen it all before.... Many times.
January 12, 2008
A dull exercise in deconstructing Jane Austen's life to provide a life experience basis for her novels.
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
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 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 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 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.
August 09, 2007
Austen comes off here more as stenographer than writer.
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."
