Carey as: Isabella Thorpe

Film info:

Release Date: 20 January 2008
Gerne: Drama, Romance
Awards: 1 nomination

Plot: When Catherine Morland is given the opportunity to stay with the childless Allen family in Bath, she is hoping for an adventure of the type she has been reading in novels. Soon introduced to society, she meets Isabella Thorpe and her brother John, a good friend of her own brother, James. She also meets Henry Tilney, a handsome young man from a good family and his sister, Eleanor. Invited to visit the Tilney estate, Northanger Abbey, she has thoughts of romance but soon learns that status, class and money are all equally important when it comes to matters of the heart.

Crew:

Director: Jon Jones
Writter: Andrew Davies (screenplay) and Jane Austen (novel)
Co-Stars: JJ Feild, Hugh O’Conor, Mark Dymond, Liam McMahon

Trivia:

- The white overdress with pink and green stripes Carey Mulligan (Isabella Thorpe) is wearing when she first meets Catherine Morland is the same costume worn by Jessica Ashworth’ (Lucy Lefroy) to the Laverton Fair in Becoming Jane (2007).