Becoming Jane
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Short description
Becoming Jane is a 2007 romantic drama set in England around 1795, focused on the early adulthood of Jane Austen. Jane is a young woman who wants to write, but her family is short of money and expects her to accept a proposal from the wealthy nephew of Lady Gresham. She refuses, unwilling to spend her life with a man she does not love. Her plans change when she meets Tom Lefroy, an Irish apprentice lawyer whose intelligence and bold manner attract her even though he has no fortune of his own. Their attachment puts her at odds with her parents and with the expectations placed on women of her time, and it shapes the understanding of love and character that would later inform her novels.
Julian Jarrold directed the film, the third in the chronological list of his features, following Anonymous Rex and Kinky Boots and preceding Brideshead Revisited. Kevin Hood and Sarah Williams wrote the screenplay, and Graham Broadbent, Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae produced it. Anne Hathaway plays Jane Austen, with James McAvoy as Tom Lefroy, Julie Walters and James Cromwell as her parents, Maggie Smith as Lady Gresham and Joe Anderson as Henry Austen. Made in the United Kingdom and Ireland by BBC Film, Scion Films, HanWay Films and Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, it had a budget of about 17 million dollars and took roughly 39 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7 out of 10 from 68,000 votes and on TMDB 7.3 out of 10 from 1,283 votes, while critics rated it 6.1 out of 10 across 140 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- Other candidates for the role of Jane Austen were Kate Winslet, Natalie Portman, and Keira Knightley.
- For her role in the film, Anne Hathaway learned to play the piano and worked specifically with a dialect coach.
- More than 300 extras were used in the ball scene. The Irish Minister of Arts, John O'Donoghue, was present during its filming.
- The role of Judge Langlois was the last in the acting career of renowned British actor Ian Richardson, who passed away on February 9, 2007.
- Many of the costumes seen in the film had already been used in other films about the same era, such as “Sense and Sensibility” (1995), “Pride & Prejudice” (2005), “Marie Antoinette” (2006), and “Northanger Abbey” (2007).
- Only two opening shots of the film were filmed in England. All the rest of the filming process, from beginning to end, took place in Ireland, in Dublin and the surrounding rural areas.
- During the filming of the opening scene, the piano Jane is playing was actually not working. The sound was added later to match the actress's finger movements with the music.
- Higginsbrook House, used in filming as the Ousten family's estate, which was destroyed in 1824, was built in the first half of the 18th century. The house is located in County Meath and was soon reused for filming the television film 'Northanger Abbey'.
- The events depicted in the film unfold around 1795.
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