Vanity Fair (2004 film)

Vanity Fair is a 2004 BritishAmerican historical drama film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackerays novel of the same name. The novel has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations, and Nairs version made notable changes in the development of main character Becky Sharp.

1802, London. The mysterious Lord Steyne Gabriel Byrne goes to a painters studio where he has agreed to buy a painting of a young woman. The young Rebecca Becky Sharp Angelica Mandy, 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 Beckys mother, the painters late wife. Steyne agrees to pay the higher amount and leaves with the painting. The young Becky is seen moving to Miss Pinkertons Academy for Young Ladies after her fathers death.The nowadult Becky Sharp Reese Witherspoon 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 Amelias brother Joseph Jos Sedley Tony Maudsley, whos stationed in India. Jos finds that Becky is interested in India. During an outing at Vauxhall, Becky meets Amelias inattentive boyfriend, the dashing and selfobsessed 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 whos a commoner, wont let him marry Amelia if Becky has also married into the Sedley family. ........

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