MOVIE · 2007
Becoming Jane
DramaRomance120 min
Young Jane Austen is caught between family duty and her own ambitions when her financially strained parents push her toward a secure match with a wealthy suitor. Anne Hathaway is Jane, sharp-minded and unwilling to trade independence for comfort, while James McAvoy's Tom Lefroy, a charming but penniless apprentice lawyer, offers a very different future. With Julie Walters and James Cromwell as Jane's anxious parents and Maggie Smith as the formidable Lady Gresham, the film follows the early romance and social pressures that shape Austen before she becomes a published novelist.
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