Jane Austen in Manhattan

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Jane Austen in Manhattan
Jane Austen in Manhattan FilmPoster.jpeg
DVD cover
Directed byJames Ivory
Written byRuth Prawer Jhabvala
(Libretto "Sir Charles Grandison" by Jane Austen & Samuel Richardson, based on a play "Sir Charles Grandison, or The Happy Man" by Jane Austen)
Produced byIsmail Merchant
Starring
CinematographyErnest Vincze, (opera sequence)
Edited byDavid E. McKenna
Music by
Distributed byContemporary Films
Release date
  • July 1980 (1980-07)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Jane Austen in Manhattan is a 1980 American romantic drama film produced by Merchant Ivory Productions for LWT, but released for theatrical exhibition in UK and USA. It was the last film appearance of Anne Baxter and the début film of Sean Young.

The film concerns competing theatrical productions in present-day New York, of a recently discovered early Austen work.

Plot[]

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.

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