He looks at me like he's the spoon, and I'm this dish of ice cream.

The Jane Austen Book Club - starring Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Jimmi Smits, Emily Blunt, Maria Bello, and Hugh Dancy and based on a book written by Kay Fowler. Let me say this up front, I really enjoyed the book. Loved it, made me want to start a book club which I sort of did. I am a huge fan of Jane Austen - therefore this was a film made just for me!

The movie follows, mostly, the plot of the book. Jocelyn and Sylvia have been friends since high school. Jocelyn even introduced Sylvia to her husband. He ends up leaving her and in order to help her through the pain of divorce the women start a book club. Bernadette is friends with Jocelyn and Sylvia, and is a mother hen and she draws Prudie into the club through their mutual detest of the movie version of Mansfield Park. Jocelyn brings a male member to the club Grigg, the youngest child in a family of girls. Jocelyn hopes he will be a match for the newly dumped Sylvia. And Sylvia’s lesbian daughter rounds off the group. Each month a member hosts the club and discusses an Austen book.

The actors selected for each character were spot on. Emily Blunt was perfect as Prudie - a young married high school French teacher. So condescending and delusional, she was exactly as I pictured her in my head. The same was true for every character. Maria was cold, oblivious, and a little self centered. But my favorite of favorites was Grigg. I loved him in the book but I adored Hugh Dancy's portrayal of Grigg the fish out of water, science fiction adoring, sweet and just so delicious man. You should watch the movie just to see him, but stay to enjoy everyone else.