Vanity Fair
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?
Synopsis
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?
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Cast
Directed by Mira Nair
Reese Witherspoon
Becky Sharp
James Purefoy
Rawdon Crawley
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
George Osborne
Romola Garai
Amelia Sedley
Gabriel Byrne
The Marquess of Steyne
Rhys Ifans
William Dobbin
Jim Broadbent
Mr. Osborne
Bob Hoskins
Sir Pitt Crawley
Eileen Atkins
Miss Matilda Crawley
Tony Maudsley
Joseph Sedley
Douglas Hodge
Pitt Crawley
Tom Sturridge
Older Georgy Osborne
Ruth Sheen
Miss Pinkerton
William Melling
Rawdy
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Lady Bareacres
Roger Lloyd Pack
Francis Sharp
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Release
2004
Runtime
141 min
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