TY - ADVS AU - Baker,Kathy AU - Bello,Maria AU - Blucas,Marc AU - Blunt,Emily AU - Brenneman,Amy AU - Calley,John AU - Dancy,Hugh AU - Fowler,Karen Joy AU - Grace,Maggie AU - Lynn,Julie AU - Napper,Diana AU - Redgrave,Lynn AU - Smits,Jimmy AU - Swicord,Robin AU - Zeger,Kevin ED - Mockingbird Pictures (Firm) ED - Sony Pictures Classics (Firm) ED - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm) TI - The Jane Austen Book Club SN - 1424883059 PY - 2008///] CY - Culver City, Calif. PB - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment KW - Austen, Jane, KW - Book clubs (Discussion groups) KW - California KW - Sacramento KW - Drama KW - DVD KW - Friendship KW - Sacramento (Calif.) KW - Feature films KW - Film adaptations KW - Romantic comedy films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Based on the book by Karen Joy Fowler; Originally released as a motion picture in 2007; Special features: Deleted scenes; Cast and crew commentary; Behind-the-scenes, the life of Jane Austen; The book club: deconstructed; Los Angeles premiere; Director of photography, John Toon ; film editor, Maryann Brandon ; music composed by Aaron Zigman ; costume designer, Johnetta Boone ; production designer, Rusty Smith; Kathy Baker, Maria Bello, Marc Blucas, Emily Blunt, Amy Brenneman, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Grace, Jimmy Smits, Kevin Zegers, Lynn Redgrave; MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature thematic material, sexual content, brief strong language, and some drug use N2 - A group of six friends, in Sacramento, gather to distract themselves from loss - a newly dumped Sylvia, Prudie's repressed disappointment, or Jocelyn, who has a life of unrealized dreams. All are devoted Jane Austen fans, except the lone man, Grigg, who has an ulterior motive for joining the chick-lit gang. There's plenty of pride (Prudie), prejudice (Jocelyn), sense (Sylvia), and sensibility (Sylvia's daughter Allegra). Throw in a fair amount of persuasion. Relationships and alliances unfolds over the months ER -