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"  &amp;quot;I know you all wanted to see what Twilight and Napoleon Dynamite created&amp;quot; Austenland director Jerusha Hess told the audience assembled for the film&amp;#039;s New York premiere at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema last night. Hess, who produced Dynamite back in 2004, was, of course, referring to Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, who produced Austenland through her production company Fickle Fish Films. And Austenland, which premiered at Sundance in January, is exactly what you&amp;#039;d expect from a marriage between Hess&amp;#039; irreverent quirkiness and Meyer&amp;#039;s romantic sensibility. The movie follows the journey of Jane Hayes (Keri Russell), a 30-something Jane Austen-obsessive, from her Pride and Prejudice-themed apartment in the states (complete with a life-size cutout of Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy) to the sprawling English grounds of Austenland, a Regency-era theme park where guests act out their own versions of Austen&amp;#039;s novels. There, she&amp;#039;s torn between Martin (Bret McKenzie), a Topshop-wearing groomsman who brings a dash of modernity to the 18th-century manse, and the Mr. Darcy-esque figure of Henry Nobley (J.J. Feild). Hilarity ensues, prompted in no small part by the boisterous presence of Jennifer Coolidge&amp;#039;s Elizabeth Charming. After the screening, Hess and Meyer joined Russell, Coolidge and Feild and moviegoers such as Alice and Olivia designer Stacey Bendet and Boardwalk Empire&amp;#039;s Aleksa Palladino for a party at the James Hotel, where they drank Qui cocktails, appropriately named &amp;quot;Jane Austen&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Mr. Darcy.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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