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The Jane Austen Book Club

United States

2007

106 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
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DIR Robin Swicord

EXEC Marshall Rose

PROD John Calley, Julie Lynn, Diana Napper

SCR Robin Swicord, Karen Joy Fowler

DP John Toon

CAST Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Maggie Grace, Hugh Dancy, Jimmy Smits, Kevin Zegers, Marc Blucas, Lynn Redgrave, Nancy Travis

ED Maryann Brandon

PROD DES Rusty Smith

MUSIC Aaron Zigman

Toronto (Gala)

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Robin Swicord

Robin Swicord (born 1952) is an American screenwriter and film director. She wrote the screenplay for the film Memoirs of a Geisha, based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Golden. Her other screenplay credits include Little Women, Practical Magic, Matilda, The Perez Family, and Shag.

Her directorial debut was with the 1993 short film The Red Coat, for which she also wrote the screenplay. Swicord wrote the screenplay for Karen Joy Fowler’s 2004 novel The Jane Austen Book Club and directed the film, which was released in the United States on September 21, 2007. She also collaborated with Eric Roth on the screen adaptation of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on the short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Swicord was born in Columbia, South Carolina. She is married to screenwriter Nicholas Kazan, son of director Elia Kazan. Their daughter is actress Zoe Kazan. —Wikipedia 

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honeybon

10Nov12

sappy sop bitch film...stuff your face with vegan ice cream and sob and then feel better kinda film crappycute

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Algitya

17Jul12

This is it. The power of unyuness a la Jane Austen's ! *grin*

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Elisa

18Nov11

Methinks Maria Bello needs to brush up on her Persuasion.

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Lauren D. Kemp

2Nov11

I'm sorry, Maria Bello does not seem like a Jane Austen type of girl.

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