Miss Austen Regrets
2008 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 3,718 VOTES · DIR. Jeremy Lovering
Overview
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?
Dialogue Timeline — 1,028 lines
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00:00:21 I think your sisters have drunk too much of the orange wine.
00:04:13 - Mr Papillon. - Miss Austen.
00:07:17 In heaven's name, what gave you that idea?
00:10:48 My darling girl, this is the real world.
00:14:46 eight and twenty chairs and two fires all to myself.
00:17:57 And I would be free to write.
00:20:54 My dear Miss Austen, you must allow me to monopolise your attention shamelessly
00:25:26 The Knatchbulls have pots of money. Their father's a baronet!
00:28:21 which was all my ambition.
00:31:07 I'm sorry.
00:34:07 "can never hope to feel or inspire affection again. "
00:37:40 I never weep over anything that might make me some money.
00:41:49 Certainly not. I'm not a writer today.
00:44:45 He never has been an apothecary. He is a Haden.
00:47:08 But he'll be so hurt!
00:51:35 - My canvas... - Miss Austen.
00:54:07 Perfectly good, tender, sentimental. Have not the tiniest sense of humour
00:57:22 Well, you can have him, my dear.
01:01:17 "The room seemed full of persons and voices. "
01:05:01 Reading? You won't have time for that sort of childishness now, Anna.
01:08:17 I don't want anything.
01:11:49 We'd have been too poor.
01:15:07 What did you want me to do? Sell myself for money?
01:19:28 This life I have