Movie Info
Genre
Drama, RomanceRelease Date
September 21, 2007 (Limited)MPAA Rating
PG-13Studio
Sony Pictures ClassicsOfficial Site
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Cast and Crew
Director
Robin SwicordProducer
John Calley, Julie Lynn, Diana NapperScreenwriter
Robin SwicordStarring
- Kathy Baker
- Maria Bello as Jocelyn
- Emily Blunt as Prudie Drummond
- Amy Brenneman as Sylvia Avila
- Hugh Dancy as Grigg Harris
- Maggie Grace as Allegra Avila
- Lynn Redgrave
- Jimmy Smits
- Marc Blucas as Dean Drummond
- Kevin Zegers
- Gwendoline Yeo
Movie Story
As five women and one enigmatic man meet to discuss the works of Jane Austen, they find their love lives playing out in a 21st century version of her novels. Sylvia (Amy Brenneman), is shocked when her husband Daniel (Jimmy Smits), leaves her after 20 plus years and three children. Jocelyn (Maria Bello), her unmarried best friend, distracts herself from her unacknowledged loneliness by breeding dogs. Prudie (Emily Blunt) is a young French teacher, in possession of a worthy husband yet distracted by persistent fantasies about sex with another man. The many times married Bernadette (Kathy Baker) develops a yearning for one more chance at happiness. Beautiful, risk-taking Allegra (Maggie Grace), Sylvia and Daniel's lesbian daughter, has quit talking to her lover. And Grigg (Hugh Dancy), a young science fiction fan and computer whiz, seems horribly both out of place and obliviously at ease as the only man to be invited into the book circle.
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