PRINCIPAL CAST

Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Amy Brenneman, Jimmy Smits, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Grace, Kevin Zegers, Kathy Baker, Marc Blucas, Ed Brigadier, Lynn Redgrave, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Nancy Travis, Myndy Crist, Gwendoline Yeo, Chris Burket, Ned Hosford

DIRECTOR

Robin Swicord

WRITER

Robin Swicord

SYNOPSIS

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.

BOX OFFICE

$3.3 Million

GENRE

Drama/Romance

RATING

Rated PG-13
mature thematic material, sexual content, brief strong language and some drug use

RUN TIME

106 Minutes

STUDIO

Sony Pictures Classics