Vanity Fair

Cast: Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Romola Garai, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Bob Hoskins, Jim Broadbent, Eileen Atkins, Rhys Ifans, Nicholas Fell, Kathryn Drysdale, Sophie Hunter, Douglas Hodge, Richard McCabe, Natasha Little, Brian Pettifer

Director: Mira Nair

Rating: PG-13

Studio: Focus Features

Release date: September 1st, 2004

Synopsis:

Set during the 1840s, "Fair" centers on a lower-class girl, Becky Sharp, who defies her poverty-stricken background to climb the London social ladder with her best friend, Amelia, by her side.

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