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'Jane Austen Book Club' has more sap than zap

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From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20070923
Author:Glenn WhippSTAFF

IT TAKES A CERTAIN willingness to a turn a blind eye to Lady Jane's sacred parchments to make a movie as soapy and sappy as "The Jane Austen Book Club."

Then again, any filmmaker who spotlights Aimee Mann's "Save Me" in a climactic third-act scene must be banking on her audience's willingness to forgive the fact that the movie is a country mile from "Magnolia" in terms of quality and emotional truth.

Of course, "Book Club" isn't meant to be grounded in any kind of reality, is it?

Set in Sacramento, filmed in Long Beach, adapted from a chick- lit best-seller, Robin Swicord's movie centers on ...

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