Austenland

Starring: Russell, Keri and Feild, Jj

Product Description

AUSTENLAND (DVD/WS 2.40/DOL DIG 5.1/ENG/KOREAN/CHINE-MAN/FREN-PARIS)

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 043396427334
• Release Date: May 2015
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Ent
• Director: Hess, Jerusha
• Starring: Russell, Keri, Feild, Jj
• Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

This is an Austentatious movie

Based on the novel by Shannon Hale of which I have not read. Jane Hayes is obsessed with Jane Austen’s novels. She is now pushing 30 and realizes that she spent so much time with Jane Austen that she missed out on real life. Her solution is to go on an immersion vacation in which you get to play a Jane Austen-like character with a promised romance in the end. The vacation is not going as planned. So, Jane Hayes pulls a few strings to make sure she gets what she paid for. We get to go on vacation with Jane. We may find ourselves kibitzing a bit. At the end of the vacation, does Jane get what she seeks? What happens to the other characters in Austenland? And is everything what it seems? I found this film to be exactly what it touts to be. This is supposed to be more of a comic satire than a psychological thriller. There are no real surprises here. However, it’s the great acting and characterization that we enjoy as the story unfolds. If the viewer just happens to be a Jane Austen fan, they might find this presentation a tad lacking as the only thing related to Jane Austin’s a few sound bites here and there now and then without any actual context. If you’re watching the streaming version, you have not missed much, as the DVD extras are the standard on how I made these movie shots. I only saw this in Blu-ray, so I cannot comment on any other version; however, this is one movie that does lend itself to the Blu-ray treatment.