Approaching her fortieth birthday, Jane Austen (Olivia Williams, Emma, The Sixth Sense) appears happily unmarried. When asked by her young niece Fanny (Imogen Poots) to help her vet potential husbands, Jane's confident composure is threatened as she finds herself looking back on her own potential suitors and the choices she has made. Could potential family financial ruin have been averted if she'd accepted the proposal of a wealthy landowner? And what about the handsome young physician Jane meets as a result of a family illness?
Based on the life and letters of Jane Austen,Miss Austen Regrets tells the story of the novelist's final years, examining why, despite setting the standard for romantic fiction, she died having never married or met her own Mr. Darcy.
Watch the movie on February 3rd on PBS...
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Imogen Poots as Fanny
Jane with one of her suitors played by Hugh Bonneville
A tender moment with Jane and Rev. Bridges
Jane, Cassandra and Fanny
Rev.Bridges, Dr. Haden, Mr. Lushington and Jane
Olivia Williams
Olivia as Jane Fairfax in "Emma"
Imogen Poots
Greta Scacchi as seen in Broken Trail
Phyllida Law (Mrs. Austen)
Jack Huston (Dr. Haden)
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I hope you don't mind, but the Mr. Darcy quote is precisely the one I intend to use for my review in Jane Austen's World. What a great blog. I love period movies, and you seem to have them all covered.
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