Becoming Jane

Name: Becoming Jane
Genre: Biography, Romance, Period Piece, Drama
Released: 2007
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 3.8
Cast: James McAvoy, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith, Anne Hathaway, Julie Walters

Julian Jarrold20072hBiography, Romance, Period Piece, Drama

Why we chose it

They were both twenty when they met: he was a penniless law student, and her name was Jane Austen. Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy play the pair, and the story has a postscript, because near the end of his life, by then Chief Justice of Ireland, Tom Lefroy admitted that he had loved her.

Synopsis

In Hampshire in 1795, Jane is twenty, never stops writing and means to marry for love, which is the last thing her parents had planned for. When Tom Lefroy arrives from London and looks down on her writing, she can’t stand him. Love, however, is lurking just around the corner.