This largely fictionalized account of episodes in the young womanhood of Jane Austen Anne Hathaway is something like an Austen novel with Jane as the heroine. Jason Schwartzman, who co wrote the screenplay, is a zero onscreen, but the bleakness is relieved somewhat by the performance of Adrien Brody and especially Owen Wilson, as his older brothers. This remake of the Glenn Ford film stars Russell Crowe as an outlaw being taken to a train, the to Yuma, which will bring him to justice. The story is about a pregnant waitress Keri Russell in a small, Southern town who dreams of leaving her suffocating and emotionally needy husband, but that description can’t do justice to the nuances of character, the smart turns of story and the fine acting, scene after scene. The clips last from a few seconds to several minutes and cover the gamut from Eddie Murphy’s guffaw in Beverly Hills Cop to Audrey Hepburn’s pleas over her no name slob cat in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Read more »