Miss Austen Regrets

TV Movie
2007
TV-G
1h 30m

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Olivia Williams in Miss Austen Regrets (2007)

In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.

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Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 wins total

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Trivia
The beige dress with paisley bodice worn by a guest at Fanny's wedding is the same costume Sabina Franklyn (Jane Bennet) wears at Longbourn in Pride and Prejudice (1980), Rachel Fielding (Mrs. Benson) wears in Princess Caraboo (1994), Julie Cox (Annabella Milbanke) wears to read Byron's poetry book in Byron (2003), and Freema Agyeman (Tattycoram) wears on the Marseilles wharf in Little Dorrit (2008). The same costume is also worn by an extra on the Marseilles wharf in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002).

Quotes
Jane Austen: [reads to Cassandra from first draft of Persuasion] More than seven years were gone since this little history of sorrowful interest had reached its close;
Jane Austen: She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige others.
Jane Austen: She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! alas! she must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
Cassandra Austen: I don't know how you have say it without tears.
Jane Austen: I don't cry at anything that pays me money

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Edited from The Real Jane Austen (2002)

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9/10

A must watch for Austen fans

If you've read her novels and love the world she creates, you will understand them so much better after seeing this BBC production. Beautifully directed and acted, it captures the person she was, witty, sensitive, a romantic at heart and yet ever so practical - even cynical in realising a good marriage is the only way a woman could lead a comfortable life. But never, not once, does the movie seem staid, or boring. It is effervescent, delicately handled and poignant. Fans of Jane Austen will love the unobtrusive inclusion of quotations from her books, the references to her most loved characters and the irony of her never finding a Mr Darcy in her own life. It moved me deeply.