Director James Ivory brings the intrigue and guile of rival theater companies to life in JANE AUSTEN IN MANHATTAN. At Sotheby's auction house in New York, a theater producer and an ambitious off-Broadway director buy an obscure childhood play written by Jane Austen. Robert Powell stars as Pierre, an avant-garde director who becomes engaged in a heated rivalry with his former mentor and lover, traditionalist director Lilianna Zorska (Anne Baxter). While competing to produce different versions of the Austen play, the two also compete for the loyalties of a young actress, Ariadne (Sean Young in her first screen role). The actual Jane Austen manuscript was sold at Sotheby's in London, and London Weekend Television became interested in producing the play--without reading it first. Merchant Ivory Productions, which had produced a film for LWT's THE SOUTH BANK SHOW two years earlier (HULLABALOO OVER GEORGIE AND BONNIE'S PICTURES), also became interested in filming the sight-unseen manuscript. However, after reading the work, screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala realized that the Austen play was not developed enough to be a film and instead used the acquisition of the text as the seed of an idea that ultimately became JANE AUSTEN IN MANHATTAN.
Product Identifiers
UPC
0037429198322
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30863130
Product Key Features
Actor
Anne Baxter, Robert Powell
Director
James Ivory
Rating
NR
Format
DVD
Release Year
2004
Movie/TV Title
Jane Austen in Manhattan
Genre
Drama
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
LeafCats
617
Film Country
United Kingdom
Leading Role
Anne Baxter, Robert Powell
Release Date
20040921
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