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Miss Austen Regrets is a British film of genre Drama released in USA on 3 february 2008 with Olivia Williams
Miss Austen Regrets (2008)
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Add to a movie listMiss Austen Regrets is a 2007 BBC drama film directed by Jeremy Lovering and written by Gwyneth Hughes. It stars Olivia Williams as Jane Austen, with Imogen Poots, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Bonneville, Adrian Edmondson and Jack Huston. It was first aired on 21 August 2007 in the U.K. and on 3 February 2008 in the U.S. by PBS Masterpiece drama anthology television series as part of "The Complete Jane Austen", the United States version of The Jane Austen Season.
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Le téléfilm s'appuie en grande partie sur certains épisodes réels de la vie de Jane Austen, et notamment sur ses relations avec l'une de ses nièces préférées, Fanny Knight, future Lady Knatchbull, qu'elle aimait « presque comme une sœur » (« almost like a sister »).Actors
Olivia Williams
(Jane Austen)
Imogen Poots
(Fanny Austen Knight)
Greta Scacchi
(Cassandra Austen)
Hugh Bonneville
(Rev Brook Bridges)
Jack Huston
(Charles Haden)
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