The Jane Austen Book Club

I told you I don't have time to wait.

What is this?

Do you have any idea? What's going on?

I know, honey, I'm on my way, okay?

Hi. I need to check your bag.

Right this way.

Come on, let's go. Get out of the way, now.

Hold it!

Please take the ticket.

Please take the ticket.

Please take the ticket.

Come on! Get in there!

Please insert card.

Please insert card.

Please insert card.

Please insert card.

I can't follow you guys. You drive too slow.

Bernie. Hey.

- Sad, huh?

- Tragic.

- Poor Jocelyn.

- It's ridiculous.

- Daniel, he was her world.

- Hold up. Cat hair.

Oh, that's why I never wear black.

Don't even look in the mirror anymore.

Should've thought of it years ago.

We celebrate a very special life

as we lay to rest Jocelyn's cherished

companion, Pridey Sahara Morgan.

Honey, we have to stay.

She raised him from a puppy.

All I know is that if I'm not back

in the office this afternoon,

Monday is gonna be hell.

She went to every one

of Allegra's birthday parties.

Oh, come on. Allegra is our actual child.

Let's get some perspective here.

Do you think if Jocelyn

were married with kids

she'd be giving her dog a state funeral?

This whole thing is warped.

- I find that personally offensive, Dad.

- What?

I mean, I may never be married

or be a mother.

Yes, some gay women

get some version of that,

but we don't all need the same things.

Can we at least agree that

human beings need

human connection?

You know, companionship,

conversation, sex.

You get those things from Mom.

Jocelyn gets them from her dogs.

Can I take your car?

Dad had to go.

We can't let Jocelyn sit home and brood.

Maybe we could all take a class.

Learn Portuguese. Go to Brazil.

I don't think I could fit

one more thing in my week, honestly.

No, no, you're right. You're right.

We should make an effort.

She just lives so far away from everything.

Give it back, Trey.

Come on. Give it back.

See ya.

Thanks. Take care.

Hi.

- Trey. Yeah.

- Trey.

Lovers' Guide to Paris.

Food Lovers' Guide.

We're gonna go to Paris. My husband and I.

It's his first time in Paris. Mine, too.

- It's a business trip for him.

- Really?

They fly him business class.

So we're just gonna do an exchange

so that I can tag along.

- That's pretty thrifty.

- Yeah.

I've never been to France. I mean...

I've been to Qubec. But that's...

- It's not in... It's in... Okay.

- No.

Do you want me to help you

carry these to your car?

- No.

- Okay.

- Well, have fun.

- Okay.

Send me a postcard.

- Hi.

- Hey.

Honey, I'm sorry I'm late.

I stopped to buy us a present.

Oh, yeah. What do you got?

- What?

- Oh, baby. I'm sorry.

I thought I said something.

- Yo, jeez, these guys are terrible.

- What?

Been like this all game. This one guy...

Paris is off.

- We're not going to Paris?

- Dale's going.

My boss-boss asked me to take the CEO

of Consolidated to the NBA playoffs.

I guess the guys at Consolidated

are like basketball freaks.

But if it's San Antonio, it'll be over in four.

Unless Tim Duncan gets hit

with an asteroid or something.

Anyway, figure I'll be on the road

for like a week, maybe eight days.

Maybe 10, just depending on...

Oh, what if your mom came and stayed?

Ten days with my mother?

Prudie.

What, did you want me

to say no to my boss?

Always doing something wrong, you know?

I have no idea what I did.

I genuinely have no idea.

I was just thinking about

something Allegra said

at Jocelyn's the other day.

I don't know if it was just

the sadness of the occasion, or...

- Oh, don't make fun, Daniel.

- No, I'm not, I'm not.

- That was her dog.

- No.

I'm saying it affected me.

- Come on.

- Okay, honey. Whatever you say.

Anyway, so Allegra and I are talking about

how we all need to have

connection, you know?

Conversation. Sex.

Companionship.

And Allegra says,

"Well, you get all that from Mommy."

I gotta tell you, it really made me sad.

Oh, baby, she'll find somebody.

No, it made me sad for us.

See, 'cause I've been struggling

with whether a marriage

can sustain all of that

over 20-plus years,

or whether it's just inevitable

that after a certain amount of time...

What are you...

Maybe being with someone else can have

a renewing effect, because for me...

I've been seeing a woman at work.

We've been together six months now.

We can't think of this as a failure.

We have had a very successful marriage.

We've had a long marriage, by any standard.

We've got three wonderful kids.

They're grown, they're working, they're...

Just open the car door, Daniel,

I need a tissue.

The kids, that's... That's all you.

You know, you...

You made all the sacrifices with that.

I know.

But there's a logic to us

quitting while we're ahead.

And I think that they'll be able to see that.

I don't understand a single word

of what you're saying, Daniel.

Who is this woman?

Look, I'm tired of lying to you.

I'm tired of making promises to Pam

that I can't keep.

She deserves better. And so do you.

And I won't give her up.

That's non-negotiable.

Syl.

I really like Edmund in this movie.

Have you seen it?

I love this movie.

Oh, I like it, but it's not Mansfield Park.

It's more of an interpretation.

- Do you know the book?

- Yes.

And I happen to teach film.

- Do you like this movie?

- No.

Do you know it mixes up Fanny Price

with the author of the book?

Makes Sir Bertram

some kind of slave owner.

Well, it means well.

And a little Jane Austen's

better than none at all.

No. No. No.

That is how I talk myself into everything.

I'm married to a man

who would cancel our trip to Paris

for a basketball game,

which is making me a fraud

in front of my students.

A French teacher

who's never been to France?

The screenplay is outstanding.

Excuse me. I'd like to talk to you.

Come with me.

You seem to know a lot about Jane Austen.

I do.

You know, Prudie,

I've been married six times.

You're always happy at first.

It's how you feel at the end that counts.

I've been thinking, I'd like to get married

again, maybe just once more.

My favorite was Ben Weinberg.

And this is Ben.

He produced Fred Astaire movies.

Don't underestimate older men.

We lived in a house in Beverly Hills

that had a little pond

and a bridge and goldfish.

That's how I met my friend Jocelyn.

- Carlos.

- My pleasure.

Ben was her godfather. Her family's loaded.

Who's Jocelyn again?

The one I wanna start the book club for.

Lost her dog?

Eat. So, book club.

I can get Jocelyn and maybe Sylvia.

Jocelyn put Sylvia and Daniel together

in high school.

They've been together ever since.

Though Sylvia's gonna want Daniel

in the book club,

but I think it should be all women.

Don't you?

I mean, men, they pontificate

and no one can get a word in edgewise.

- Well, I think if you...

- And women won't butt in,

but men, they keep monologuing.

Yammer, yammer, yammer.

And we keep listening,

protecting their feelings.

- But if...

- And men don't do book clubs.

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