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Vanity Fair
2004 2h 21m PG-13
Drama
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Romance
6.2
51%
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58%
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Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia Sedley.
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Directed By
Mira Nair
Written By
Julian Fellowes
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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Studio
Focus Features
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Cast of Vanity Fair
Reese Witherspoon
Becky Sharp
James Purefoy
Rawdon Crawley
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
George Osborne
Romola Garai
Amelia Sedley
Gabriel Byrne
The Marquess of Steyne
Rhys Ifans
William Dobbin
Jim Broadbent
Mr. Osborne
Bob Hoskins
Sir Pitt Crawley
Eileen Atkins
Miss Matilda Crawley
Tony Maudsley
Joseph Sedley
Douglas Hodge
Pitt Crawley
Tom Sturridge
Older Georgy Osborne
Ruth Sheen
Miss Pinkerton
William Melling
Rawdy
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Lady Bareacres
Roger Lloyd Pack
Francis Sharp
Angelica Mandy
Young Becky
Deborah Findlay
Mrs. Sedley
John Franklyn-Robbins
Mr. Sedley
Tim Preece
Horrocks
Natasha Little
Lady Jane Sheepshanks
Geraldine McEwan
Lady Southdown
Kathryn Drysdale
Rhoda Swartz
Kelly Hunter
Lady Steyne
Richard McCabe
The King
John Woodvine
Lord Bareacres
Robert Pattinson
Older Rawdy Crawley (uncredited)
Nikita Ramsey
Public School Girl (uncredited)
Jade Ramsey
Public School Girl (uncredited)
Vanity Fair Reviews
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Even with a running time of more than 2 hours, this kind of condensation means we race through the story's second half in a time warp not aided by Nair's garish, out-of-nowhere and out-of-place Indian interludes.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
Though it's an accomplished production, Vanity Fair ranks as a standard costume drama populated by snide old biddies, aging lords and ladies, manipulative business barons and dashing soldiers.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
A charming movie that falls short of greatness, but is still worth a solid recommendation.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A pared-down but wonderfully cluttered rendition of Thackeray's work, beautifully acted by a dream troupe of performers.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
By film's end, audiences are bound to be left dissatisfied with the choppy and confusing storytelling style and unhappy about the missed opportunity.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
What it needs is more emphasis on the 'vanity' and less on the 'fair.'
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Still, with a cast this good and production value so inspiring Vanity Fair is a hard movie to let go of. Nair gets this era of British history spot-on showcasing a collision of cultures brought about by English imperialism.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Lovely literary adaptation with class issues, battle scenes.
Las Vegas Mercury
Jeannette Catsoulis
More daring, more unexpected, and more thoroughly alive than anything this stuffy genre has seen since Gosford Park
Refinery29
Anne Cohen
Olivia Cooke's interpretation is probably the best Becky Sharp yet: She's intensely charismatic, with a little more bite, and toes the line between being faithful to the book and teasing out more modern feminist themes a little more smoothly.
Newsweek
David Ansen
This Vanity Fair delights the eye, but Nair may be too much the humanist for her own good: she hasn't the instinct for the kill.
Observer
Rex Reed
It's lavish but lulling, and at two hours and 18 minutes, it's something of a bore.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
A less than absorbing adaptation of Thackeray's sprawling but sharp-witted classic.
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Scene by scene and moment to moment, it's a woeful misreading of the book.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Witherspoon moves director Mira Nair's version of Thackeray's social satire forward at a good clip, making Becky's rising and falling fortunes an intensely watchable spectator sport.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
There is no depth beneath its bright surfaces, no potent emotional undercurrents.
Slate
David Edelstein
We're left with an increasingly weak-willed protagonist and a narrative with no driving force -- no motor.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Witherspoon's simply terrific, and it's amazing how quickly and easily she sheds speculation that she was too modern for the role.
San Jose Mercury News
Bruce Newman
The satire is sharply observed and the performances acutely felt, most of all Witherspoon's.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A lot of things happen, all of it fairly absorbing, some of it rendered vividly.
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