The Jane Austen Book Club

...and actorly vanity. There are moments when you'd swear Dancy (The Jane Austen Book Club, Evening, Confessions of a Shopaholic) wasn't even aware the camera was rolling: He, like Adam, seems lost in his own world. His performance is...

In this article: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Asperger's Syndrome, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Peter Gallagher, Social anxiety, and Shorts

...market on floppy-haired British heartthrobs. In his last three films, Evening, The Jane Austen Book Club, and Confessions of a Shopaholic, he's played a boy-man with a big (if vulnerable) heart. He gets to do that again in Adam (opening July...

In this article: Hugh Dancy, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Autism, Asperger's syndrome, Sundance Festival, Evening, and Rose Byrne

...luridly over-the-top.) The easy thing would be to milk the oddness for laughs, but Dancy ("Confessions of a Shopaholic," "The Jane Austen Book Club") imbues his character with an unshakeable dignity and moral resolve. Byrne ("Knowing," TV's...

In this article: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Autism, Manhattan, Asperger's syndrome, Knowing, and Confessions of a Shopaholic

...Austen Book Club Home // DVD // Reviews // Jane Austen Book Club (2008) AUSTEN POWER Emily Blunt and Marc Blucas join The Jane Austen Book Club, now on DVD Release Date: Feb 05, 2008; Rated: PG-13; Genres: Drama, Romance; With: Emily...

In this article: DVD, Jane Austen Book Club, Hugh Dancy, Emily Blunt, Marc Blucas, Dog, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice

...in "Ella Enchanted," the handsome love interest in "Confessions of a Shopaholic" and the handsome love interest and nerd in "The Jane Austen Book Club. " Dancy, 34, plays Adam, a brilliant but socially awkward man with Asperger's syndrome,...

In this article: Hugh Dancy, Autism, New York, Oxford University, Asperger's syndrome, Rigor, and Claire Danes

...magazine, a position that is way beyond her qualifications. In the big-screen version, her boss is also her love interest (Hugh Dancy of The Jane Austen Book Club). Aussie-raised Fisher, 32, was already a fan of the books before she...

In this article: Becky Bloomwood, Shopaholic, Isla Fisher, Jerry Bruckheimer, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Patricia Field, Sacha Baron Cohen, Wedding Crashers, and Manhattan

...pill.) Thanks to Bello and Blunt, "The Jane Austen Book Club" seems populated less by characters than people, who even when put through some unlikely paces emerge as somehow believable, especially in their self-deceptive foibles. The appeal...

In this article: Hugh Dancy, Emily Blunt, Maria Bello, Robin Swicord, Kevin Zegers, and Kathy Baker

...Dancy an Emmy nomination. New York State of Mind When the script for "Adam" came to Dancy, he was primed from having done Americans ("Evening" and "The Jane Austen Book Club"). But was he primed to probe deep corners of the human...

In this article: Hugh Dancy, Mark Teschner, and London

...difficult Usually cast as the romantic charmer ("Confessions of a Shopaholic," "The Jane Austen Book Club," "Ella Enchanted"), Hugh Dancy shifts gears to play Adam, a man with Asperger Syndrome, in the Sundance sensation "Adam. "

In this article: Hugh Dancy, Autism, Asperger syndrome, John Elder Robison, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Look Me in the Eye, Fox Searchlight, and Rose Byrne