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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 25714
Released: February 1, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
In a culture obsessed with status, Becky Sharp, beautiful, clever and poor, is determined to earn her place in society. While the wickedly amoral Becky manipulates the men around her, the vagaries of fate leave her innocent childhood friend, Amelia Sedley
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 31-MAY-2005
Media Type: DVD
Description of Vanity Fair (2004) (Full Screen):
The corsets and high waists of the 19th century meet the lush colors and visual splendor of India in Vanity Fair, a classic novel translated into modern celluloid by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding). The very contemporary Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde, Election) at first seems to hit the wrong note as Becky Sharp, an orphaned girl who rises to the heights of society using her quick wits and feminine wiles. But as Vanity Fair unfolds, the movie's tone embraces both period decor and modern attitudes, searching for a bridge that will carry us more deeply into a different time. It isn't wholly successful--the movie's end wraps things up awkwardly--but some scenes achieve a surprising and vivid immediacy, in particular one in which Becky's gambler husband (elegant James Purefoy) catalogues his worth for her before going off to the Napoleonic battlefields; love and pragmatism fuse with heartbreaking results. --Bret Fetzer
Vanity Fair (2004) (Full Screen) Reviews:
A very well done classic 
2009-12-20 - I've actually seen this redone three times.
This version is the least painful of the lot,
if still not the most faithful to the classic novel.
Becky Sharp is not out of Jane Austin or Dickens, but she
certain represents a time and place in 19th century literature.
In this movie she is treated more kindly than in most
and with more understanding of humanity.
Vanity Fair is a bridge between French novels and English
with a very bitter irony and satire of the manners and culture of that time.
What we love to hate is the greatness of the writing.
Fantastic Movie 
2009-12-08 - I love Reese Witherspoon, she is a splendid actress. This movie is great, it should have been up for movie of the year. Realistic acting by all the cast. It should have won best picture and Reese should have gotten an Academy Award for it by far this is her best work.
Wonderful!
2009-11-26 - This was a great movie and I enjoyed it a great deal!
Thank you!
Becky Dull : The Castration of Vanity Fair 
2009-11-16 - I know it is very very late to critique this film. The horse has long since left the barn and the farm but when a film is this atrocious an additional warning cannot be amiss. The performances, cinematography, etc. are exactly as you expect them to be for a film this expensive. But it is all for naught. The screenplay and the idea behind it are so awful that no amount of technical excellence could salvage it. A collection of morons decided to extract the heart of Becky Sharp. The very thing that has kept people reading her adventures for 200+ years was judged as inadequately upbeat for the American public. It is a deeply insulting film. Their Becky is sweet. Vanity Fair is a cinematic hatchet job; they gut Becky.
Vanity Fair
2009-11-05 - This movie looks beautful, acting is fantatic, screenplay..sucks. It's long, boring and somewhat confusing.
I only bought it for Robert Pattinson. He is only in the extra's the alternate ending.Vanity Fair (Widescreen)
