Wow! Such a good movie.

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This "film" reminded me very much of the many films and series based around Agatha Christie's works, in the sense that it's one of the many British period pieces that you *look at* rather than watch. The houses, the gardens, the clothes, the lovely crystallised manners are lovingly presented, every detail just right. Plot? Not so important--and in this case it's a good thing. True, Miss Austen wrote prolifically and well for the reason many authors do--because their own lives aren't like that. Re-writing (or redirecting) reality is what the movie and novel industries are all about; controlling events, making it happen the way you want it to happen, not the way it so often does in real life. And so often, the director and writers' personal agenda gets pride of place; they wanted to show Austen as an embittered woman who "lost out" because she rejected woman's traditional role of wife and mother. If that were not the case, there would have been less emphasis on the many (apocryphal) refused proposals and they wouldn't have chosen the title "Miss Austen Regrets." I think Jane certainly regretted being poor, and being unable to be the captain of her own fate to the degree she would have liked to, but that can be said of many people today, as well. Life is what it is, and you do what you can with what you have.I watched this film in company with my own gentleman admirer, and his reaction led me to come in to IMDb and look for more information. He said, "I get the feeling someone had rented the costumes and locations for yet another period piece, finished before the deadline, and told the director, "Go ahead and use our stuff to make your film, we've got a few days left on the sheet." I was amused when reading IMDb's "Trivia" section to discover that indeed many of the costumes, interiors (and of course the actors) have appeared in other Regency romance films. It's almost as much fun as playing "spot the blue motor" and counting how many times per episode Hastings exclaims "Good Lord!"when watching the Granada series of Poirot--but not quite.

In my opinion, the direction only brings out 25%-30% of miss Austin's real life where the rest is not justified for her of being the 'Best Cook' of the recipe of 'Love'. Definitely there should have been a point in her life that she regretted of not getting married, though It's not a factor for her struggle of bringing out romance in an era, where wealth became a factor. The way Jane Austin brought up 'Pride and prejudice', 'Sense and Sensibility', The persuasion' etc. give us a broader view on how a young woman should look for a partner apart from wealth. In her case, she was not in a situation but her effort on describing it was magnificent. Isolating her lengthy character, and by only focusing as a single movie apart from 'Becoming Jane', I think this is worth watch.

The Austen Industry ensures that almost every year there is a new production of either one of her books, or of films about how us moderns are affected by her work (The Jane Austen Book Club, Lost in Austen)almost two centuries after she lived. This film turns the spotlight away from her characters to the author herself, and does it wonderfully well: we see her as sister, daughter,and aunt, a creature of flesh and blood who is not beyond the occasional infatuation in middle age. Well cast, well acted and all that one expects from a satisfying period drama. For an hour and a half I was transported from monsoonal India to nineteenth century England -- what more can one ask for!

I SO wanted to absolutely love this movie. I did. Don't get me wrong -- it got a lot right. It was on Masterpiece Theater, for heaven's sake, and the script generally tried to stay closer to the few facts we have about Austen's life. It had decent direction and adept, credible Brits portraying Jane and her family. And yet, there was one huge flaw that I just couldn't ignore. Miss Austen Regrets would have us believe that Jane had several offers of marriage during her lifetime but knowingly and deliberately chose to remain single and focus on her work. This is a 20th to 21st century conceit awkwardly imposed on a 19th century situation.The few facts we have show that Jane received only one marriage proposal during her life, and that was from someone with an irritating personality. Harris Bigg-Wither was described by Jane's niece Caroline Austen and by one of his own descendants, Reginald Bigg-Wither, as unattractive at best: he was plain, if not homely, stuttered, aggressive in conversation, and almost completely tactless. Those objectionable qualities, despite his comfortable financial position, would have put off many women, then *or* now. Had he had a more pleasing personality, Harris might have tried first for a fiancée from a more prosperous family instead of proposing to Jane.Moreover, Jane had known Harris since childhood and probably knew full well what she'd be getting into if she decided to marry him. To endure Bigg-Wither every so often at social occasions was one thing, but to marry him and have to endure that personality day in and day out would have been quite another. The simplest explanation is that Austen initially agreed to his proposal in order to be less of a burden to and/or provide for her family, but she knew him too well not to immediately regret her decision the next morning -- and thus she reneged on her acceptance in less than a day, and remained single. She probably considered that the lesser of two evils.The truth, then, is *not* that Jane Austen turned down acceptable proposals and made a conscious decision to put her writing first and stay independent, particularly given that she *never was* financially independent, but rather that no handsome, sweet-tempered, intelligent man, with or without means, ever asked her. She may have had such men as friends or acquaintances, but none of them ever proposed. If one had, remaining single would have been a much harder decision -- but that's moot, because such a man never did ask. Period. And that's a rude truth she had to suffer for all her adult life. It's not a truth that Miss Austen Regrets chose to address, however, and that is the film's greatest failing.