Vanity Fair (2004 film)
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| Directed by | Mira Nair |
| Produced by | Janette Day |
| Screenplay by |
Julian Fellowes Matthew Faulk Mark Skeet |
| Based on |
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Starring |
Reese Witherspoon Jonathan Rhys Meyers James Purefoy Gabriel Byrne Eileen Atkins Bob Hoskins Romola Garai Jim Broadbent |
| Music by | Mychael Danna |
| Cinematography | Declan Quinn |
| Edited by | Allyson C. Johnson |
| Distributed by | Focus Features |
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Release date
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September 1, 2004 (United States) January 14, 2005 (United Kingdom) |
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Running time
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141 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $23 million |
| Box office | $19,463,185 |
Vanity Fair is a 2004 British-American historical 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.
1802, London. The mysterious Lord Steyne (Gabriel Byrne) goes to a painter's studio where he has agreed to buy a painting of a young woman. The young Rebecca "Becky" Sharp (Reese Witherspoon), 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 is preparing to leave the academy for a position as a governess. She travels by carriage to her new position, stopping on the way at the home of her best friend Amelia Sedley (Romola Garai) and her family. Amelia lives in a large estate as the daughter of a gentleman, though her father is not as wealthy as he appears. Becky meets Amelia's brother Joseph "Jos" Sedley (Tony Maudsley), who's stationed in India. Jos finds that Becky is interested in India. During an outing at Vauxhall, Becky meets Amelia's inattentive boyfriend, the dashing and self-obsessed Captain George Osborne (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), and his best friend, Captain William Dobbin (Rhys Ifans), who is secretly in love with Amelia. Jos is smitten with Becky, but in a private discussion, George convinces Jos to break off his attentions to the penniless girl. George is concerned that his father, a rich businessman who's a commoner, won't let him marry Amelia if Becky has also married into the Sedley family.
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