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Becoming Jane Director: Julian Jarrold Certificate: PG. Running time: 2hrs *** The Good German Director: Steven Soderbergh Certificate: 15. Running time: 1hr 48mins *** Outlaw Director: Nick Love Certificate: 18. Running time: 1hr 45mins ** Norbit Director: Brian Robbins Certificate: 12A. Running time: 1hr 41mins no stars
Jane Austen has become big business in recent years, with film and television adaptations of her novels coming round at an ever more alarming pace. No sooner has the memory of a particularly pretty Lizzie Bennet or a dashing Mr Darcy begun to fade, then up pops another. And another.See the full content of this document
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Not Such a Plain Jane
Pride And Prejudice, Sense And Sensibility, Mansfield Park . . . round and round the Austen merry-go-round we go in a giddy whirl of impoverished, unmarried sisters, dashing young gentlemen of independent means and, of course, bonnets. Can't have Austen without bonnets.
But nor can you have an Austen adaptation without an Austen novel to take it from, and she wrote only six. So it was just a matter of time before desperate producers hi...See the full content of this document
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