Bright Young Things (film)
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| Directed by | Stephen Fry |
| Produced by | Gina Carter Miranda Davis |
| Written by |
Stephen Fry Based on the novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh |
| Starring |
Emily Mortimer Stephen Campbell Moore Fenella Woolgar Michael Sheen James McAvoy Dan Aykroyd Jim Broadbent Peter O'Toole |
| Music by | Anne Dudley |
| Cinematography | Henry Braham |
| Edited by | Alex Mackie |
| Distributed by | Film Four |
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Release date
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3 October 2003 |
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Running time
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106 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2,682,600 |
Bright Young Things is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Stephen Fry. The screenplay, based on the 1930 novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, provides satirical social commentary about the Bright Young People: young and carefree London aristocrats and bohemians, as well as society in general, in the late 1920s through to the early 1940s. It was John Mills' final film before his death in 2005.
The primary characters are earnest aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes and his fiancée Nina Blount. When Adam's novel Bright Young Things, commissioned by tabloid newspaper magnate Lord Monomark, is confiscated by HM customs officers at the port of Dover for being too racy, he finds himself in a precarious financial situation that may force him to postpone his marriage. In the lounge of the hotel where he lives, he wins £1000 by successfully performing a trick involving sleight of hand, and the Major offers to place the money on the decidedly ill-favored Indian Runner in a forthcoming horserace. Anxious to wed Nina, Adam agrees, and the horse wins at odds of 33–1, but it takes him more than a decade to collect his winnings.
Meanwhile, Adam and Nina are part of a young and decadent crowd, whose lives are dedicated to wild parties, alcohol, cocaine, and the latest gossip reported by columnist Simon Balcairn, known to his readers as Mr. Chatterbox. Among them are eccentric Agatha Runcible, whose wild ways eventually lead her to being committed in a mental institution; Miles, who is forced to flee the country to avoid prosecution for his homosexuality; Sneath, a paparazzo who chronicles the wicked ways of the young and reckless; and Ginger Littlejohn, Nina's former beau, who ingratiates himself back into her life, much to Adam's dismay. The pastimes of the young, idle rich are disrupted with the onset of World War II, which eventually overtakes their lives in often devastating ways.
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