Kpeters214 Review of An American in Austen

An American in Austen (2024 TV Movie)

Be careful what you wish for...

[9/10 · 18 February 2024]

...as you just might get it. Surprisingly, this was very well done for a Hallmark movie. It held my interest for its length, and I'm a guy (I'll turn in my "man card" later). Anyway, our heroine (actress Eliza Bennett, chosen for the part because of her name?), a struggling authoress suffering from "writer's block", makes a wish on a falling star and finds herself 210 years into the past and has become "Our American Cousin" to the Bennett girls. She subsequently muddles up the Jane Austen "Pride & Prejudice" story as she knows the story plot line too well. Look for a "surprise guest appearance" at the Duchess's Ball by a certain redhead. Eventually, "All's Well that End's Well", and she returns to the present time during the same taxi ride in which she started her journey into the "space-time continuum", with the "spirits having done it all in one night". Oh, and she no longer suffers from her writer's block and becomes a successful authoress with a well-chosen title for her book.