Jane Austen Book Club, The

As five women and one enigmatic man meet to discuss the works of Jane Austen, they find their love lives playing out in a 21st century version of her novels. Sylvia (Amy Brenneman), is shocked when her husband Daniel (Jimmy Smits), leaves her after 20 plus years and three children.

Jocelyn (Maria Bello), her unmarried best friend, distracts herself from her unacknowledged loneliness by breeding dogs. Prudie (Emily Blunt) is a young French teacher, in possession of a worthy husband yet distracted by persistent fantasies about sex with another man. The many times married Bernadette (Kathy Baker) develops a yearning for one more chance at happiness.

Beautiful, risk-taking Allegra (Maggie Grace), Sylvia and Daniel’s lesbian daughter, has quit talking to her lover. And Grigg (Hugh Dancy), a young science fiction fan and computer whiz, seems horribly both out of place and obliviously at ease as the only man to be invited into the book circle.

Directed by
Robin Swicord

Cast
Maria Bello - Jocelyn
Jimmy Smits - Daniel
Emily Blunt - Prudie
Kathy Baker - Sky
Amy Brenneman - Sylvia
Maggie Grace - Allegra
Hugh Dancy - Grigg
Lynn Redgrave
Marc Blucas - Dean

Production Co.
John Calley Productions

Produced by
John Calley
Julie Lynn
Diana Napper

Studio
Sony Pictures Classics

Writer
Robin Swicord
Karen Joy Fowler

Music
Aaron Zigman