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AUSTENLAND
July 18, 2014  | By David Bianculli

Starz!, 9:00 p.m. ET

 

This 2013 movie premise doesn’t just scream “chick flick.” It howls it like a banshee – a banshee obsessed with Pride and Prejudice and other things Jane Austen. Keri Russell, showing a much softer side than she has in FX’s The Americans, plays a single woman who decides to travel abroad to attend a British holiday resort catering to literary and movie fans who want to wallow in an approximation of the worlds generated by author Austen.  But the approach here is as much satiric and reverent, which may or may not help this particular dose of romcom go down any more easily. JJ Field and Flight of the Conchords singer-songwriter Bret McKenzie co-star.

 
 
 
 
 
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