James McAvoy, who played Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, is in a new movie called Becoming Jane. The movie opened today in limited movie theatres across the United States. McAvoy plays Tom Lefroy in this dramatic and romantic film.
Becoming Jane has already been released in other countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia and Israel. The movie has only been released in the United States to limited theatres, but will be widely available in most US theatres on August 10th, 2007. It will also be released to other countries in the coming months, including the Netherlands on August 16th, Germany on October 4th and Spain on October 19th.
Spoilers for Becoming Jane ahead!
This movie is a biography of Jane Austen (played by Anne Hathaway.) After rejecting many marriage proposals, Austen meets Lefroy and they fall in love. They wish to be married, but their families disapprove. Lefroy’s family threatens to disinherit Lefroy if he marries Austen, while Austen’s parents believe Lefroy will not be able to provide for Austen. Lefroy later becomes the inspiration for Mr. Darcy in her most famous work Pride and Prejudice.
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