Vanity Fair

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Actors: Gabriel Byrne , Reese Witherspoon , Jonathan Rhys Meyers , Rhys Ifans , Romola Garai , Ruth Sheen , Roger Lloyd-Pack , John Franklyn-Robbins , Deborah Findlay , Tony Maudsley , Charlie Beall , Lillete Dubey , Angelica Mandy , Paul Bazely , Kate Fleetwood

Director: Mira Nair

IMDB Rate: 6.2 out of 10 (8821 votes)

Plot Summary:The British Empire flowers exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her fathers paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.