Vanity Fair
Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia Sedley.
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 2h 21m
- Released
- 2004
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Details
Release year: 2004
Storyline
Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia Sedley.
Top credits
Reese Witherspoon ā Becky Sharp
Romola Garai ā Amelia Sedley
James Purefoy ā Rawdon Crawley
Jonathan Rhys Meyers ā George Osborne
Did you know
ā¢ After asking Reese Witherspoon to get pregnant for the role (as a joke, because she thought Reese was too thin), director Mira Nair was delighted when Witherspoon announced that she actually was pregnant.
ā¢ Shot in 55 days.
ā¢ In the early 1970s, Stanley Kubrick wanted to direct an adaptation of this book, but found it to be too big to make it into a three-hour movie. He instead made Barry Lyndon (1975).
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $16,136,476
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $4,800,000 (2004-09-05)
User reviews
Thackery goes Hollywood
Social climbing
Disappointing, if not disastrous
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- DTS, Dolby Digital
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- Color
- Color
