The Jane Austen Book Club DVD, 2007

In romantic drama The Jane Austen Book Club, the lives of six ordinary people take on contemporary parallels to the text in the Jane Austen novels they are reading as part of a community book club.

Five women and one man get together once a month to discuss the novels of the beloved English writer. The club is organised by Bernadette (Kathy Baker) in order to help her friend, Sylvia (Amy Brennemen), get over a heartbreak. Sylvia's lesbian daughter, Allegra (Maggie Grace), joins to support her mother, as does Sylvia's friend, Jocelyn (Maria Bello), who brings along a young man she just met (Hugh Dancy) in the hope of playing matchmaker.The group is completed by Prudie Drummond (Emily Blunt), a young teacher. Finding comfort, wit and wisdom from the pages and each other, they begin to realise that their own love lives parallel Austen's seemingly timeless storylines.