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FILM REVIEW: 'Becoming Jane' a lame take on Austen's life

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From: University Wire
Date: 20070820
Author:Rebecca Weiss

Rebecca Weiss
University Wire
08-20-2007
(Cornell Daily Sun) (U-WIRE) ITHACA, N.Y. -- "Becoming Jane" is the story of how lame Jane Austen was. Or, at least, how lame those involved with producing "Becoming Jane" were, and how they tried their best to make Jane Austen seem lame as well.

Anne Hathaway plays the young novelist who has, at the start of the film, not yet completed her first book when a visitor from London, Tom LeFroy (James McAvoy), turns her provincial life on its head. The playboy and future lawyer LeFroy has been sent to the countryside as punishment by his benefactor uncle ...

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