Product: Becoming Jane [Blu-ray] (2007)
Rating: 4.0
Not perfect, But there is much to like...
First off this is a "speculative view" of Jane Austen's life based on the few small clues of her life & social circle that are left to us. So everyone out there who is having a fit over unsubstatiated claims should calm down. The producers never claim that they are making a factual biography.Second the cast and the acting are all enjoyable. I have no problem whatsoever with Anne Hathaway playing a Brit, it might not be perfect but she does a superior performance to Gwennie Paltrow's absolutely brutal brit-impressions. James McAvoy is a lot of fun in this movie, but it is his facial expressions which convey the most. Together, he & miss Hathaway will literally break your heart! Most of us are aware that Jane Austen never married, going into the movie with that knowledge does not spare the viewer from sadness & disapointment.As a fantasy of Ms. Austen's life the story, though not riviting is performed very well and is enjoyable. Not so enjoyable is, as several previous reviewers pointed out, the blatant sexuality and inneundo that pops in rather unexpectedly from time-to-time. As there is no real use for it, it is rather jarring and comes off as gratuitous and unnecessary.Accept it for speculation & fantasy & you will enjoy yourself. Take it for fact and you will make yourself crazy. It is entirely up to you.