The Jane Austen Book Club, New Clips

The Jane Austen Book Club
New Clips

Check out these clips from the new film The Jane Austin Book Club starring Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker and Maria Bello.

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.

Director:Robin Swicord
Writers (WGA):Robin Swicord (screenplay)
Karen Joy Fowler (book)
Release Date:16 November 2007 (UK)
Starring: Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker, Maria Bello, Maggie Grace, Kevin Zegers