Modern Persuasion is a romantic comedy film directed by Alex Appel and Jonathan Lisecki. The film follows Wren, a single, workaholic woman living in New York. She unexpectedly finds herself ...

"What better way for me to get over my first love than to watch him fall in love with someone else...?" Samuel Goldwyn Films has released an official trailer for a romantic comedy titled Modern ...

Myriad Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to the Alicia Witt romantic comedy “Modern Persuasion,” which will premiere at the Cannes Virtual Market. The film, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1817 ...

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The stakes are low and the perkiness high in this unconvincing attempt to root 'Persuasion' in a world of champagne and social media. Back in 1995, in the midst of cinema’s brief fixation with Jane ...

EXCLUSIVE: Another Jane Austen adaptation is on its way. Alicia Witt is set to star in the indie feature Modern Persuasion, a modern adaptation of Austen’s Persuasion to be directed by Alex Appel (The ...

Continuing the Bridgerton trend of cheeky romance adaptations with a contemporary flare, the latest incarnation of Jane Austen's Persuasion has taken a "modern, witty" approach to the classic love ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film, an adaptation of Jane Austen's 1817 novel "Persuasion," is directed by Alex Appel and Jonathan Lisecki from a script by ...

This article originally appeared on Variety. Back in 1995, in the midst of cinema’s brief fixation with Jane Austen, director Roger Michell made the definitive film of “Persuasion”: as literate and ...