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Austenland

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  Austenland Review
Tookey's Rating
1 /10
 
Average Rating
3.60 /10
 
Starring
Keri Russell, Jennifer Coolidge , J.J. Feild
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Directed by: Jerusha Hess
Written by: Jerusha Hess

 
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Released: 2013
   
Genre: ROMANCE
COMEDY
   
Origin: US
   
Colour: C
   
Length: 97
 
 


 
An embarrassment.
Reviewed by Chris Tookey



Austenland is a would-be frothy but hopelessly crude romcom about a young American woman (Keri Russell, pictured) infatuated with all things Jane Austen who goes on a themed holiday in England which promises her “the full Jane Austen experience”.

Our heroine happens upon a smorgasbord of bad actors overacting horribly in terrible English accents.

Fatally, writer-director Jerusha Hess, who made Napoleon Dynamite, has little or no understanding of Austen’s strengths and weaknesses. Anyone hoping for a witty spoof or half-way decent romcom will be disappointed.

There’s little sense here, and far too coarsened a sensibility.


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