An American in Austen

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Eliza Bennett as Harriet
• Nicholas Bishop as Mr. Darcy
• Nell Barlow as Elizabeth
• Catherine Hannay as Jane
• Erica Ford as Kitty
• Grace Hogg-Robinson as Lydia
• Calypso Cragg as Mary
• Robin Weaver as Mrs. Bennet
• Robert Portal as Mr. Bennet
• Toby-Alexander Smith as Charles Bingley
• Olivia Benjamin as Caroline
• Charlotte Wakefield as Charlotte Lucas
• Dominic Andersen as George Wickham
• Joseph Richardson as William Collins
• Bert Seymour as Ethan
• Kate Nichols as Natalie
• Shin-Fei Chen as Wendy
• Adam Goodwin as Footman
• Sarah Ferguson as The Duchess
• Peter Broderick as Villager
• Richard Gibson as Clergyman
• Millie Kiss as Young Girl
• JR Esposito as Taxi Driver
• Liliya Atanasova as A Maid (uncredited)

Storyline:

Librarian and aspiring novelist Harriet Goodson, currently having a case of writer’s block, is a Jane Austen aficionado, her favorite of the books being Pride and Prejudice. It is the love of that book that makes her respond “maybe” to her boyfriend Ethan Pronce’s unexpected proposal of marriage, as it, despite being romantic in nature, wasn’t like the fairy-tale proposal she had envisioned by her yet unknown “Mr. Darcy” who she considers the most romantic hero in literature. Dreaming of Mr. Darcy, Harriet awakens to find that she has been miraculously transported into the world of Pride and Prejudice, she the newly arrived American cousin to the Bennets. While she does believe Mr. Darcy to be handsome to a fault when she first spots him, Harriet is aware that he is destined to be with Elizabeth. As the characters react as they are supposed to as written by Austen, Harriet doesn’t count on her presence and her twenty-first century mentality affecting the proceedings. But in the process, she may get a better understanding of her feelings regarding her wanted Mr. Darcy and if, if she is ever to make it back to present day, Ethan is indeed that person despite her hesitant “maybe” response.