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Release date United Kingdom: TBA, DVD release: TBA

Director: Robin Swicord

Cast:

Maria Bello as Jocelyn
Emily Blunt as Prudie
Hugh Dancy as Grigg
Amy Brenneman as Sylvia
Kathy Baker as Bernadette
Jimmy Smits as Daniel
Maggie Grace as Allegra
Nancy Travis as Cat

About:

As five women and one enigmatic man meet to discuss the works of Jane Austen, they find their love lives playing out in a 21st century version of her novels. Sylvia (Amy Brenneman), is shocked when her husband Daniel (Jimmy Smits), leaves her after 20 plus years and three children. Jocelyn (Maria Bello), her unmarried best friend, distracts herself from her unacknowledged loneliness by breeding dogs. Prudie (Emily Blunt) is a young French teacher, in possession of a worthy husband yet distracted by persistent fantasies about sex with another man. The many times married Bernadette (Kathy Baker) develops a yearning for one more chance at happiness. Beautiful, risk-taking Allegra (Maggie Grace), Sylvia and Daniel's lesbian daughter, has quit talking to her lover. And Grigg (Hugh Dancy), a young science fiction fan and computer whiz, seems horribly both out of place and obliviously at ease as the only man to be invited into the book circle.

Genres:
Romance - Drama

Producers: John Calley Julie Lynn

Writers: Robin Swicord (screenplay) Karen Joy Fowler (book)

Studio: Sony Pictures Classics