The Jane Austen Book Club
Release date: September 21, 2007 More »
Cast:
- Maria Bello as Jocelyn
- Emily Blunt as Prudie Drummond
- Kathy Baker as Bernadette
- Amy Brenneman as Sylvia Avila
- Maggie Grace as Allegra Avila
- Jimmy Smits as Daniel Avila
- Ed Brigadier as Pastor
- Kevin Zegers as Trey
- Marc Blucas as Dean Drummond
- Catherine Schreiber as Academic Woman
- Ned Hosford as Waiter
- Hugh Dancy as Grigg Harris
- Messy Stench as Girl with Dog Collar Show All »
About:
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.
