Keri Russell says she thinks many moviegoers will relate to the character she plays in the new romantic comedy "Austenland" because they, too, are looking for some form of escape from their everyday lives.
The film casts Russell as Jane, a contemporary American woman so obsessed with Jane Austen's classic romance novel "Pride & Prejudice" -- and its dashing hero Mr. Darcy -- she spends her life savings on a three-week trip to an English estate that recreates the book's 19th century setting, complete with servants and chaperones, as well as handsome suitors to woo guests.
Of course, once modern Jane is there, she feels ridiculous as she realizes the manufactured experience doesn't quite live up to the fantasy she has been entertaining most of her life.
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