The Jane Austen Book Club

A group of women, several of whom are just a few summers shy of the Red Hat Society, and a guy get together to read Jane Austen novels once a month. And, as luck would have it, the problems in their own lives mirror the problems of the characters in the Austen novels. While we're privy to much discourse on the interpretation of Austen, not one character proffers the best explanation of what Austen was trying to accomplish -- that she's making fun of the inane and superficial lives of the landed rich. Until Hollywood recognizes this, it will continue to get Austen wrong. It'd be like making the movie "The Upton Sinclair Book Club" and having nobody suggest, "I think he had a problem with capitalism."