The Jane Austen Book Club - DVD Review
Wow, I love this movie. Yes it’s a chick-flick. Although, it’s wouldn’t be a bad movie for a curious man to
watch. You have a group of women that create a book club to help a friend get through a divorce after
twenty years of marriage. You have five women and one lone brave man, Grigg, in the group. The
underlying tones are incredible. The emotional tension runs so high that you feel yourself connecting to
the scenes based on your own previous life experiences. Love, relationships, mans view, and lots of
women’s views. You’ve got so many different views and perceptions. It really makes you think,
reevaluate, and look at the big picture. Man, love is messy, stunning, hurtful, baffling, inspiring,
terrifying, and exciting. It’s the ultimate oxymoron/yin and yang. It’s the ultimate roller coaster ride.
It reminds me of how lost I felt when I went through my divorce. I didn’t love my husband. That wasn’t it.
I felt like a failure. I was scared and all alone. It was a very frightening situation for me. I often wonder
how couples repair their relationships/marriages after infidelity. I wonder how anyone could ever find it
in themselves to forgive to that extent. I guess I’m not as good of a person as I like to think because I
know I could never find it in myself.
Mrs. Thea tells me time and time again that there is a fine line between love and hate. It’s so easy to
slip over to the other side. Usually by the time we feel hate it’s gone too far to fix anything.
Favorite lines:
• He looks at me like he’s the spoon and I’m the dish of ice-cream.
• I understand why Colonel Brandon goes for Marianne. And it’s not ‘cause she’s young. It’s because
she’s generous with herself. She’s willing to risk her heart. No rules, no fear.
• Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
• What does thinking do when what I feel is something else?
As moments tick away, time never stopping, the little things are what really matter. The smiles, the
passing of special moments with our eyes, the laughter, the hugs, the squeezes, the sweet notes, the
kind actions, and the simple I love yous.
Let us never hold those special moments back as secrets out of fear. Let us savor those shared
moments because you never know when it will be the last one. Be present in the now as if you may not
have a tomorrow.
I will definitely buy this DVD.
Kathey Baker as Bernadette
Maria Bello as Jocelyn
Marc Blucas as Dean
Emily Blunt as Prude
Amy Brenneman as Sylvia
Hugh Dancy as Grigg
Maggie Grace as Allegra
Jimmy Smits as Daniel
Kevin Zegers as trey
Parisa Fitz-Henley as Corinne
Nancy Travis as Cat
Lynn Redgrave Mama Sky
Based upon the book by
Karen Joy Fowler
Written for the screen and directed by
Robin Swicord
Cindy Callinsky
watch. You have a group of women that create a book club to help a friend get through a divorce after
twenty years of marriage. You have five women and one lone brave man, Grigg, in the group. The
underlying tones are incredible. The emotional tension runs so high that you feel yourself connecting to
the scenes based on your own previous life experiences. Love, relationships, mans view, and lots of
women’s views. You’ve got so many different views and perceptions. It really makes you think,
reevaluate, and look at the big picture. Man, love is messy, stunning, hurtful, baffling, inspiring,
terrifying, and exciting. It’s the ultimate oxymoron/yin and yang. It’s the ultimate roller coaster ride.
It reminds me of how lost I felt when I went through my divorce. I didn’t love my husband. That wasn’t it.
I felt like a failure. I was scared and all alone. It was a very frightening situation for me. I often wonder
how couples repair their relationships/marriages after infidelity. I wonder how anyone could ever find it
in themselves to forgive to that extent. I guess I’m not as good of a person as I like to think because I
know I could never find it in myself.
Mrs. Thea tells me time and time again that there is a fine line between love and hate. It’s so easy to
slip over to the other side. Usually by the time we feel hate it’s gone too far to fix anything.
Favorite lines:
• He looks at me like he’s the spoon and I’m the dish of ice-cream.
• I understand why Colonel Brandon goes for Marianne. And it’s not ‘cause she’s young. It’s because
she’s generous with herself. She’s willing to risk her heart. No rules, no fear.
• Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
• What does thinking do when what I feel is something else?
As moments tick away, time never stopping, the little things are what really matter. The smiles, the
passing of special moments with our eyes, the laughter, the hugs, the squeezes, the sweet notes, the
kind actions, and the simple I love yous.
Let us never hold those special moments back as secrets out of fear. Let us savor those shared
moments because you never know when it will be the last one. Be present in the now as if you may not
have a tomorrow.
I will definitely buy this DVD.
Kathey Baker as Bernadette
Maria Bello as Jocelyn
Marc Blucas as Dean
Emily Blunt as Prude
Amy Brenneman as Sylvia
Hugh Dancy as Grigg
Maggie Grace as Allegra
Jimmy Smits as Daniel
Kevin Zegers as trey
Parisa Fitz-Henley as Corinne
Nancy Travis as Cat
Lynn Redgrave Mama Sky
Based upon the book by
Karen Joy Fowler
Written for the screen and directed by
Robin Swicord
Cindy Callinsky
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