Jane Austen is celebrating a pretty major birthday this year. The famed scribe will turn the big 2-5-0 on December 16, smack-dab in the middle of cozy sweater-weather season.

And while most fans of the English author are celebrating the milestone by gearing up for brand-new takes on the writer's most-loved tales (including a six-part Netflix miniseries version of "Pride & Prejudice" starring Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden and Olivia Colman, and Focus Feature's upcoming big-screen remake of "Sense & Sensibility" led by Daisy Edgar-Jones), this Austen diehard is looking back at one of the novelist's most underrated page-to-screen adaptations: 2016's "Love & Friendship."

Based on Austen's posthumously published 1871 epistolary novel "Lady Susan," "Love & Friendship" stars Kate Beckinsale as the t

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