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All's fair in love & war. - Vanity Fair
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Title: Vanity Fair

Release Date: 1 Sep 2004

Runtime: 2h 21m

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Focus Features, Tempesta Films, Granada Productions, Inside Track

Production Companies: Focus Features, Tempesta Films, Granada Productions, Inside Track

Overview: 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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Ratings

Average Vote: 5.8 (337 votes)

Cast

  • Becky Sharp: Reese Witherspoon
  • Rawdon Crawley: James Purefoy
  • George Osborne: Jonathan Rhys Meyers
  • Amelia Sedley: Romola Garai
  • The Marquess of Steyne: Gabriel Byrne
  • William Dobbin: Rhys Ifans
  • Mr. Osborne: Jim Broadbent
  • Sir Pitt Crawley: Bob Hoskins
  • Miss Matilda Crawley: Eileen Atkins
  • Joseph Sedley: Tony Maudsley
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