 The Jane Austen Book Club
Starring: Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Jimmy Smits, Amy Brenneman, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Grace, Kevin Zegers, Lynn Redgrave, Kathy Baker, Marc Blucas
Directed by: Robin Swicord
Screenplay by: Robin Swicord
Release: September 21, 2007
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual content, brief strong language and drug use.
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
 Domestic: $3,575,227 (49.9%)
Foreign: $3,588,339 (50.1%)
Total: $7,163,566 (Worldwide)
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 Tagline: You don't have to know the books to be in the club.
Six California friends (Maria Bello, Amy Brenneman, Emily Blunt) form a book club devoted to studying the works of 19th-century author Jane Austen. As each deals with life's assorted challenges, he or she finds unexpected similarities and wisdom within the pages of Austen's witty prose.
Today's central California may be far removed from Regency England, but some things never change. We're still every bit as preoccupied with the complexities of marriage, friendship, romantic entanglements, position, and social manners and mores as was Jane Austen at the turn of the 1800s. The Jane Austen Book Club reveals the lives of an ensemble of present-day friends through the witty prism of their literary heroine.
Six book club members, six Austen books, six interwoven story lines over six months in the busy modern setting of Sacramento, where city and suburban sprawl meet natural beauty. While the contemporary stories never slavishly parallel the Austen plots, the six characters find echoes, predictions, warnings and wisdom about their own trajectories within Austen's beloved narratives.
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