The JANE AUSTIN BOOK CLUB is posted as a romantic comedy. I didn't think it was funny or "hilarious" like it says on the back of the DVD, but I did find this story interesting. I'm no Jane Austin expert but I suspect Karen Joy Fowler is, and while I was watching this film, I was thinking about writing workshops, and creative fiction, and how she must have plotted this story out.
Fowler, and then screenwriter Robin Swicord, wove a fiction story about a cast of characters (none of whom overplayed their part), friends, who form a book club to discuss the masterpieces of novelist Jane Austin, and find her stories relate to their 21st century lives. Starting, stopping, or ending romances...
