Today’s film is a biographical drama with a scene that happens on January
15. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
BECOMING JANE
Jane
Austen is the unmarried daughter of a poor clergyman who wants to be a writer.
Barrister Tom LeFroy offends her by falling asleep while Jane is reading her
work. Tom overcomes this poor first impression and they fall in love. However,
Tom’s uncle Judge Langlois refuses to agree to their marriage, due to the
poverty of Jane’s family. Tom rejects Jane and becomes engaged to someone else,
with Jane following suit and accepting a suitor she had rejected earlier, due
to lack of affection. Tom later returns and begs Jane to elope with him.On
January 15, 1796 [1:32:14 to 1:46:17] Jane starts to elope with Tom LeFroy, but
changes her mind when she learns that his family is dependent on the money
Judge Langlois gives him and their marriage would reduce his entire family to
poverty, which she feels in the loing run would destroy their happiness. Jane
returns home, but ends her engagement. Twenty years later Jane, now an
established author meets Tom again. He named his daughter Jane, after her.
Jane Austen’s Letters ed. by Deirdre Le Faye (Oxford
University Press, New York, 1995) at pages 3-4 gives the date of their last
meeting
Director - Julian Jarrold
Producers - Graham Broadbent,
Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae
Screenplay - Kevin Hood and Sarah
Williams
Released – March 9, 2007
Runtime – 2 hours
Starring -
Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen
James McAvoy as Thomas
"Tom" Lefroy
Julie Walters as Mrs Austen
James Cromwell as Reverend George
Austen
Maggie Smith as Lady Gresham
Lucy Cohu as Eliza, Comtesse de
Feullide
Laurence Fox as Mr Wisley
Joe Anderson as Henry Austen
Ian Richardson as Lord Chief
Judge Langlois of London
Sophie Vavasseur as Jane Lefroy
Anna Maxwell Martin as Cassandra
Austen
Leo Bill as John Warren
Jessica Ashworth as Lucy Lefroy
Helen McCrory as Mrs Radcliffe
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Robert
Fowle
Copyright by Ivan Walters in
2015.
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