Becoming Jane is a movie about Jane Austen, the author of six deep and thoughtful romance novels that have all been made into movies, most of them more than once. The movie cannot be really called Jane’s biography, although there are some historical names mentioned. It so happens that we do not know very much about Jane Austen’s life,
which leaves room for creativity. This movie uses that room and tells us a nice story - perhaps the kind of a story Jane Austen would have written herself.
We see Jane as a young woman (played by Anne Hathaway) who is determined to marry only for love (just like Lizzie Bennett from “Pride and Prejudice,” remember?).
Her mother,
