Becoming Jane

2007 • 2h 0m •

Romance Drama

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★ 7.3/10

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Though young Jane Austen's financially strapped parents expect her to marry the nephew of wealthy Lady Gresham, Jane herself knows that such a union will destroy her creativity and sense of self-worth. Instead, she becomes involved with Tom Lefroy, a charming but penniless apprentice lawyer who gives her the knowledge of the heart she needs for her future career as a novelist.

"Her own life is her greatest inspiration."

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Anne Hathaway

Jane Austen

James McAvoy

Tom Lefroy

Julie Walters

Mrs. Austen

James Cromwell

Mr. Austen

Maggie Smith

Lady Gresham

Joe Anderson

Henry Austen

Lucy Cohu

Eliza de Feuillide

Laurence Fox

Mr. Wisley

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F Filipe Manuel Neto Verified TMDB Critic

2023-08-05

**Romanticizing Jane.**

Jane Austen was a nonconformist. She was the seventh child of an Anglican priest and belonged to what we might now call the middle class. She had many books at home, and both parents taught her to read and write, supported her, recognized in her the same talent we all know her now. Moreover, she was unlucky in love: it does not seem that her parents sought to marry her, it is quite plausible that she did not want to marry for economic reasons and the love affairs that we know of her were short and fruitless. With the publication, very shy, of her first editions, the ...