'Club' could attract broader audience than adult females

September 21, 2007 A case in point is Robin Swicord, who over the course of a successful screenwriting career for nearly 30 years ("Memoirs of a Geisha," "Little Women") had always wanted to direct but never quite managed to connect with the right opportunity. Opening Friday via Sony Pictures Classics in New York, Los Angeles and other top markets and expanding Oct. 5, "Club" has been generating a well-deserved buzz as a possible fall sleeper. It's a film I enjoyed personally and not being a big Jane Austen buff myself I think that augers well for its potential appeal to a broader audience than just the obvious adult female demographic that loves Austen's novels.

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