Storyline
Obsessed with the BBC production of "Pride and Prejudice", a woman travels to a Jane Austen theme park in search for her perfect gentleman.
Directors
Cast
Rupert Vansittart, Jennifer Coolidge, Demetri Goritsas, Keri Russell, Richard Reid, J. J. Feild, Georgia King, Jane Seymour, Alan Calton, Bret McKenzie, James Callis, Ricky Whittle, Ayda Field, Ruben Crow, Parker Sawyers, Sarah Niles, Annie Gould, Tracy Higgins, Goldy Greaves, Bernadette Chapman, Julie Newman, Alison Carpenter, Brenda Storer, Caroline Bond, Hema Bedre, Joanna Abbot, Sandra Morgan, Suzanne Downes, Austin Wilks, Tom Whitecross, Jadran Malkovich, Gideon Jensen, Andrew Samuels, Dino Georgiades, Erica Elmer, Fabian Bourgoin Heskia, Gunalp Kocak, Lee Craven, Mazlum Kortas, Ryan Bohan, Samantha-Jane Hunt, Yiannis Morgan, Jonathan Whittaker
Trailer
Reviews
80
Village Voice
The ending is a bit of an audience-pleasing cop-out, a retreat into formula after 80 minutes or so of upending it. But those upendings are memorable, the cast dishy fun, and Jerusha Hess and Shannon Hale's breeze of a script (based on Hale's novel) is smart about the allure of fictional romances.
70
Hess gets her romance just grounded enough to handle the comic extremes supplied by the supporting cast.
67
Austenland is kind of a one-joke movie, and the film's rhythm is a bit flaccid, but the joke, at least, has a twinge of wit.
60
Austenland is as light and airy as a cream puff, and as entirely unfulfilling. Fans of the book may find it amusing, but those looking for heartier romantic comedy fare would do well to look elsewhere.
60
The Guardian
It is smart and surprisingly literate, its only downfall being in that, in riffing on the work of a very talented writer on the subject of men and women, its screenplay could have used a little more of Jane Austen's immaculate sense of storytelling.
