Being Julia

Being Julia is a 2004 comedydrama film directed by Istvn Szab and starring Annette Bening and Jeremy Irons. The screenplay by Ronald Harwood is based on the novel Theatre 1937 by W. Somerset Maugham. The original film score was composed by Mychael Danna.

Michael suggests they invite Tom to spend time at their country estate, where he can become better acquainted with their son Roger Tom Sturridge. At a party there, Tom meets aspiring actress Avice Crichton Lucy Punch, and, when Julia sees him flirting with the pretty young woman, she becomes jealous and anxious and angrily confronts him. He slowly reveals himself to be a callous, socialclimbing, golddigging gigolo, and Julia is shattered when their affair comes to an end.Avice, now romantically involved with Tom, asks him to bring Julia to see her perform in a play in the hope the actress will induce her husband to cast her in a supporting role in Julias upcoming project. The play is dreadful, and Avice is not much better. Backstage, Julia compliments her evenworse costar and barely acknowledges Avice, although she promises to tell Michael about her. Afterwards, she forces Tom to admit he loves Avice, then although her heart is broken by his admission she assures him she will insist the ingenue be cast in her next play. ........

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