Product: Becoming Jane [Blu-ray] (2007)
Rating: 2.0
Hollywood Fluff - Not for Anglophiles.
While it wouldn't be fair to compare this to the A&E Pride and Prejudice, or the BBC's Persuasion, or even Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility as those were stories actually created by Jane Austen whereas this is merely a biography of Jane Austen, perhaps it would then be fair to compare it to Shakespeare in Love, then? In any case, this film fails badly in comparison to any of those. Becoming Jane is painful to observe in many places, especially where they strove, ridiculously, to fit famous phrases from Austen's work into places in the story. This was a thematic idea in the film which I found unendurable.