Miss Austen Regrets

Miss Austen Regrets

90 mins | Drama | Feb. 3, 2008

An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale inspired by the life and letters of Jane Austen. Jane Austen is about to turn forty, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the perfect husband for the young girl, the aging spinster begins to wonder why it is that she never found a man to share her own life with. Perhaps if Jane had accepted the proposal of a wealthy landowner she could have saved her family from financial ruin, and what of the handsome young physician who once warmed to Jane after tending to her ailing family members?

Miss Austen Regrets

90 mins | Drama | Feb. 3, 2008

Miss Austen Regrets
An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale inspired by the life and letters of Jane Austen. Jane Austen is about to turn forty, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the perfect husband for the young girl, the aging spinster begins to wonder why it is that she never found a man to share her own life with. Perhaps if Jane had accepted the proposal of a wealthy landowner she could have saved her family from financial ruin, and what of the handsome young physician who once warmed to Jane after tending to her ailing family members?
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers BBC, WGBH Boston
Original title Miss Austen Regrets
Directors Jeremy Lovering
Writers Gwyneth Hughes, Jane Austen

Cast

Olivia Williams

as Jane Austen

Greta Scacchi

as Cassandra Austen

Imogen Poots

as Fanny Austen Knight

Phyllida Law

as Mrs. Austen

Pip Torrens

as Edward Austen-Knight

Tom Hiddleston

as Mr. John Plumptre

Hugh Bonneville

as Rev Brook Bridges

Tom Goodman-Hill

as Mr. Lushington MP

Jack Huston

as Charles Haden

Samuel Roukin

as Harris Bigg

Adrian Edmondson

as Henry Austen

Jason Watkins

as Rev Clarke

Lizanne Tulip

as Fanny's Best Friend