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Release Date: 2004 Cast: Sian Thomas, Angelica Mandy, Sophie Hunter, Rhys Ifans, James Purefoy, Gabriel Byrne, Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai, Tom Sturridge, Bob Hoskins, Geraldine McEwan, Deborah Findlay ...MORE
Cast: Sian Thomas, Angelica Mandy, Sophie Hunter, Rhys Ifans, James Purefoy, Gabriel Byrne, Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai, Tom Sturridge, Bob Hoskins, Geraldine McEwan, Deborah Findlay, Robert Pattinson, Tony Maudsley, Emilie Richardson, Meg Wynn Owen, John Woodvine, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Douglas Hodge, Natasha Little, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Lillete Dubey, Kate Fleetwood, Eileen Atkins, Roger Lloyd Pack, John Franklyn-Robbins, Jim Broadbent ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Film adaptation, Period piece, Costume drama Vanity Fair is a 2004 British-American costume drama film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name. The novel has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations, and Nair's version made notable changes in the development of main character Becky Sharp.
The film was nominated for "Golden Lion" Award in 2004 Venice Film Festival.
The story opens in London, in the year of 1802. The mysterious Lord Steyne (Gabriel Byrne) makes his way to a painter's studio where he has agreed to buy a painting of a young woman. The young Becky... MORE
Vanity Fair is a 2004 British-American costume drama film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name. The novel has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations, and Nair's version made notable changes in the development of main character Becky Sharp.
The film was nominated for "Golden Lion" Award in 2004 Venice Film Festival.
The story opens in London, in the year of 1802. The mysterious Lord Steyne (Gabriel Byrne) makes his way to a painter's studio where he has agreed to buy a painting of a young woman. The young Becky Sharp (Angelica Mandy), then a girl of ten, insists on having ten guineas, instead of four guineas, as the price of the painting. The painter explains that the model in the painting is Becky's mother, the painter's late wife. Steyne agrees to pay the higher amount and leaves with the painting. The young Becky is seen moving to Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies after her father's death.
The now-adult Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) is preparing to leave the academy for a position as a governess. She travels by carriage to her new position, stopping on the way to see her best friend Amelia LESS
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