As the makers of Becoming Jane would have it, famed author Jane Austen’s life was little more than a second-rate version of her own, great Pride and Prejudice. Aside from the fact that there is little known truth to substantiate this conceit, the filmmakers have dug themselves a hole by asking for comparisons to Austen’s classic novel (not to mention the many superior film versions of it). This is contrived and hokey where Austen’s work is effortless and romantic. With Anne Hathaway as Austen and James McAvoy doing his best Mr. Darcy.
