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Becoming Jane is a biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman, a charming but penniless apprentice lawyer who gives her the knowledge of the heart she needs for her future career as a novelist.
With a spot-on accent and altogether charming performance, Hathaway makes another convincing statement that she has grown, as a woman and as an actress.
August 14, 2009
Ebert & Roeper
Not only is that a huge stretch of the facts, it makes for a dull and overly familiar melodrama.
August 14, 2007
Movie Views
Even though it looked great and was moderately engaging, something was also always missing.
This never rises above a date movie, but it's functionally literate (the lovers have some pleasant banter about the realistic merits of Tom Jones) and features a fine supporting turn from Ian Richardson.
Director Julian Jarrold (Kinky Boots) struck a unique and lovely tone, managing to maintain a conventional Merchant-Ivory type look but successfully infusing it with some rather modern humor--Hathaway and McAvoy verbally sparring like an 18th century Trac
"The reality of love's disappointments enriches the film's heroine, who never married in real life, and brings a 200-year-old figure into living focus."