Anne Hathaway reportedly passed up the chance to star in Judd Apatow's highly anticipated summer comedy Knocked Up in order to take on this Jane Austen biopic. Early reviews for the film have been decidedly favorable albeit with conservative amounts of enthusiasm (do these austere biopics ever really elicit any sort passion from their viewers?). Only time will tell if it was worth ditching an outrageous American comedy in favor of a more serene British drama. It's obvious, though, that this project better serves Hathaway's self confessed desire to be seen as a more serious actress and could even allow her to get her hands on the Academy Award nomination that alluded her for her breakout work in Ange Lee's Brokeback Mountain. James McAvoy and Maggie Smith also star in the film, which focuses on the notoriously unsuccessful love life of the woman responsible for some of literature's most famous romances. The film gets its American release beginning August 3rd.Trailer:
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