Vanity Fair

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 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 father s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. Written by Vanity Fair is a 2004 English-language Drama movie starring Reese Witherspoon, Eileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Romola Garai, Bob Hoskins and Gary Bunn. The movie is based on Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. Granada Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Lydia Dean Pilcher and Janette Day. Vanity Fair is written by Julian Fellowes and directed by Mira Nair. Focus Features acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Vanity Fair was released on 1st September 2004 and takes a screen time of 141 minutes. Vanity Fair was made on a budget of $23 million and at the box office it grossed only $19 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Julian Fellowes, Matthew Faulk and Mark Skeet. Cinematography was done by Declan Quinn and editing by Allyson C. Johnson and Nishikesh Mehra. The music was composed by Mychael Danna.
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