Plot
Obsessed with the BBC production of "Pride and Prejudice", a woman travels to a Jane Austen theme park in search for her perfect gentleman.
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 5.8/10 (280 voted)
Director:Jerusha Hess
Storyline
Austenland is a romantic comedy about 30-something, single Jane Hayes, a seemingly normal young woman with a secret: her obsession with Mr. Darcy-as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice-is ruining her love life; no real man can compare. But when she decides to spend her life savings on a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined.
Filming Locations: West Wycombe House, West Wycombe Park, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Box Office Details
Budget: £4,900,000
(estimated)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
User Review
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Rating: 9/10
I saw this Austenland premiere at Sundance yesterday and I was
thoroughly entertained. While not a completely original romcom premise,
there is enough that is fresh in the storyline to keep you engaged, and
at one point even with a whodunit flair.
Director Jerusha Hess (co-writer of Napoleon Dynamite) has a really
remarkable debut. The movie is smart, funny and paces nicely. Keri
Russell is at her girl-next-door best, but Jennifer Coolidge feels like
she has been cut loose to reveal her outrageous, campy silliness in all
its splendor, and Brett McKenzie (of Flight of the Conchords fame) is
surprisingly believable and impossible not to like as mostly a straight
man. I expect this performance will catapult McKenzie's acting career.
Other cast members, including J.J. Field and Jane Seymour, are solid.
Most of the cast was at the premiere and came on stage for the Q&A. Now
many casts at Sundance say they enjoyed making the movie, but you could
tell there was something different with this group. They sounded like
the REALLY HAD FUN. McKenzie was hilarious live (something few actors
are) and I only wish Coolidge had been there. Their enthusiasm was
certainly buoyed by just having seen the movie for the first time and
I'm sure being surprised by how well it turned out. But also, quite a
credit to Hess to create an environment where good spirits flow. The
positive energy definitely found its way to the screen.
I had the good fortune to run into Jerusha Hess in the parking lot
afterward. She seems like a very genuine and engaging woman. I expect
she will be highly sought-after from here out. A new Nora Ephron. In
fact, there was something about this movie that reminded me a little of
Mixed Nuts.
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