6/10/2023 0 Comments Austenland book review![]() Darcy returns in repeat incarnations because he was the original Unavailable Male - filthy rich, craggy of jaw, few of words. Hale understood that Austen's contemporary appeal has less to do with her literary cachet than with the fact that she was the prototypical romance novelist. Hale co-wrote the screenplay with director Jerusha Hess, but the novelist's sprightly dialogue seems not to have survived the heavier hand that wrote Napoleon Dynamite. ![]() Author Shannon Hale's cheeky wit shone bright in her romp through Austen country and the burgeoning industry it has spawned - an industry that mostly targets Darcy-worshipping American women. ![]() Other than those few precious moments, though, the only virtues of this lumbering farce are those of the much livelier novel from which it's adapted. With: Jane Seymour, Keri Russell, Jennifer Coolidge, Bret McKenzie, Georgia King, James Callis, Ricky Whittle, JJ FeildĪustenland, a clunky broadside aimed at the cult of Jane Austen, is worth seeing primarily for its end credits, a mix of pop oil and water so joyfully dippy it might have produced a stifled giggle even in Herself. ![]() Rated PG-13 for for some suggestive content and innuendo ![]()
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